Biblioteca na escola: repensando ambientes de leitura

Abstract

This work presents a discussion about the problems of reading and school library in the public school context. Thus, the study had as main objective to understand the possible implications that the lack of reading spaces, as the school library, has on students’ reader education of elementary school, considering, the subjects involved point of view. Based on the study of the school context and the demands of reading of the students, the research set out to seek pedagogical alternatives that could contribute to encouraging the practice of reading, with a view to broadening the students' reading competence in the context of a public school that does not have library. In this perspective, it is a research of ethnographic nature, qualitative base, realized with the participation of teachers, principals, mothers and the 8th grade students from Municipal Centro Cultural Domingos Machado de Almeida School, located in the city of Entre Rios, in the interior of Bahia. The data were collected through semi-structured interviews, questionnaires, conversation and reading activities and writing textual production developed with the students, during pedagogical intervention, besides analysis of documents and observations recorded in a field notes. From the theoretical point of view, this research associates to the studies of the literacies, which understand the reading as social practice and the role of the school library in the diffusion of culture and training of readers. These assumptions were used to justify the discussions, analysis and ideas presented in this work.