Contribuições da revista ciência hoje das crianças para o letramento

Abstract

The results of student performance in Brazilian evaluations demonstrate little resource fullness in reading and their interfaces. For this reason, studies that contribute to the effectiveness of processes readers who have the objective to literate are challenging and needed to change the current educational situation in the country. Thus, the present research focuses on the magazine “Ciência Hoje das crianças” as a cultural product intended for children, looking for its contribution to literacy. The magazine is available at libraries in Brazilian public schools by the National School Library (PNBE), facilitating access of the material to children. This study is based on the analysis of the interaction of 10 children with the magazine; the discussion involves the following problem: “What are the contributions of “Ciência Hoje das crianças” periodical to child literacy”? With this information, the study presents reading proposals with selected texts read by children. The research was conducted in two public schools (one in a State school and another in a Municipal one), the selection criterion of the school was their location and also their flow rate from the Index Development of Basic Education (IDEB). The research methodology is qualitative approach, observing individual aspects of the intervention. The authors used to support the theorical base were Dewey (2007), Adorno (2000) and Larrosa (2002), to build the concept of education, Vygotsky (1989, 2007), Bakhtin (1997), Marcuschi (2002), Fontana, Paviani and Pressanto (2009) were used to language and learning to discuss and analyze the textual choices made by children when the intervention, and Soares (2003, 2004), Kleiman (1995, 2005) and Rojo (2004), to assist in thinking about literacy and implications for education. The research obtained as a result, the finding that there is a positive interaction between children and the magazine ”Ciência Hoje das crianças”, because of the diversity of topics presented as well as the didactically manner with which the content reaches the reader. The hybrid nature of the language and the way it provides these contents are important factors in the signification process of the reader child with the magazine, concluding that this product brings possibilities for cultural literacy. This dissertation is included in the project PNBE 2010: possible readings, and it belongs to the Education, Language and Technology Research Line.