Contação de histórias na perspectiva de professoras contadoras: possibilidade de atuação.

Abstract

This study aims to investigate storytelling as a procedure of mediation for literary reading in order to contribute to the qualification of literary instruction in primary education. It has opted for a qualitative research approach, using the method of bibliographic investigation associated with the technique of interview conducted with five storytellers, teachers of the city of Caxias do Sul municipal education system, in the pursuit of indications of criteria and paths to implement storytelling. The theoretical framework was based in Freire (1998) and Vigotski (2001) regarding education; in Cosson (2009), Candido (2011) and Yunes (2012) to ground literature and literary literacy; and Benjamin (1985), Girardello (2012), Sisto (2012) and Tahan (1945) to reflect on the act of storytelling. This work presented an overview of the educators that perform as storytellers in the city’s municipal education system, their pathways and strategies to motivate reading in school environments. And its results shed light on the reading mediation, the literary literacy and the role of storytellers and their relations with the literary universe. Concluding, the research indicates the necessity of actions such as storytelling to the promotion of literary readers in the society and mainly in the school domain, and also proposes the preparation of educators for reading mediation based on the reality observed in the city of Caxias do Sul.