UM OLHAR SOBRE AS PRÁTICAS DE LEITURA NAS AULAS DE LÍNGUA PORTUGUESA EM 5ª E 8ª SÉRIES

Abstract

This study analyzed the reading practices that happen in the classes of Portuguese Language,specifically, with groups of 5th and 8th grades in three schools of the public education of the Ponta Grossa City, in Paraná State. In addition, it still looked for to understand the physical,material, pedagogic and human conditions existent in those schools that contribute to the effective development of reading practices. The field research involved the following strategies: observation of the school and of the classes of Portuguese Language, application of questionnaires to the responsible for the libraries, educators, teachers and students from the observed classes. The methodology used for the data collection was the qualitative research of the thnographic type and we analyzed the data in agreement with the approach of the qualitative researches. We organized the work in three discussion axes: a) education politics and the school context; b) educational practices: rituals and routines in the school quotidian; c) the reading practices in the school: the reading as cultural practice. The theoretical discussions are seated in authors that discuss the school, the reading and the cultural practices, like Bourdieu, Freire, Chartier, Smith, Foucambert, Solé and Silva and, also the ones who work with the education politics, such as: Paro, Frigotto, Sacristán and, still, the ones who have as axis the quotidian: Mclaren, Heller, Bourdieu, and others. The main conclusions are the following ones: a) the clients of the schools are formed by a very big economical and cultural diversity and, in that way, the school tries to homogenize and to ritualize the educational actions to impose an uniform posture; b) the schools sustain their practices centered in rituals and routines created in a long time; c) the relationships promoted at classroom are provocative of competitions between teachers and students. Those agents in the school context struggle amongst themselves, making agreements and negotiations trying to impose their values, faiths and habits; d) the teachers do not plan their classes, what results in fragmented and repetitive activities; e) the text book is the material most used by the teachers to work with the reading in classroom; f) into the schools there is a ready institutionalized speech that blames the media and the family institution for the students' indifference for the reading; l) the responsible professionals to mediate the reading in the schools - librarians, educators and teachers - affirmed that they are readers, however, eventually. As the teachers as the students recognize that the reading is important for the people life, they have notion of the role of the school in the formation of readers.