A construção metafórica do aluno do ensino médio no livro didático de língua portuguesa

Abstract

The textbook is a material historically designed to produce predominant discourses that direct behavior, especially that of the student, considering that it is the focus of teachinglearning at school. This research proposes to analyze and characterize, from the perspective of materialist discourse analysis, the profile of the high school subject-student enrolled in the authorial didactic project of the Portuguese book, Interação Português (2020). Furthermore, to describe how educational policies reflect the social imaginary about the high school student-subject; to analyze how discursive regularities metaphorize the metaphorical effects on the subject-student in the authorial didactic project of the Portuguese language textbook for High School and point out the profile of the subjectstudent in the post-reform High School textbook. To develop this research, we relied on theorists such as: Achard (1999), Pêcheux (1997; 2014; 2015); Orlandi (1987; 1998; 2007; 2012; 2014; 2017); Silva (2020); Azevedo (2014). We adopted as the corpus of this investigation the textbook Interação Português (2020), by authors Graça Sette, Ivone Ribeiro, Márcia Travalha and Nara Bital. We observed, through our analyses, that the textbook, based on discursive memories of the student profile that already exists in education, as well as on discourses about the Portuguese language as na instrument and expression of thought, metaphorizes and/or represents the “new” student also in na intricate relationship with the “old” student of Brazilian public education. Because the “new” student mentioned in the reform is also considered by the textbook as a person who does not know how to read, position himself appropriately, and who needs to learn. We believe that this occurs because the secondary education reform was designed to meet the new needs of increasing capital and not the educational reality, thinking about the development of the student that changes the system.