Práticas Literárias na escola com o gênero cordel: do folheto ao ciberespaço

Abstract

The new conceptions of teaching, learning and reading, allied to circulation of different textual genres in society, require the formation of a critical and competent reader supported by useful and effective practices of reading which provide them the conditions of appropriating of knowledge, and prepare them to an efficient participation in social practices of use of reading and writing on multiple situations inside and outside school context. In this research, with nature quali-quantitative, it is made an analysis about work with cordel poetry genre in an eighth grade class by believing that to the formation of critical and competent readers must be used strategies of teaching which provide the reader the contact with multiple media devices of insertion of cordel poetry in an act of approaching provenients texts from tradition and culture which have passed to circulate not only in pamphlets, but in books and cyberspace as well. The general goal is to accomplish studies about cordel in a way of verifying how this textual genre, present in multiple media devices of insertion, aids in formation of critical and competent readers at school environment. As specific aims were listed: 1) To know the origin and evolution of cordel poetry from pamphlet to cyberspace; 2) To explore the characteristics of this genres and their social uses in reading/listening activities and textual production; 3) To create situations of reading and appreciation of texts which keep a dialogue with the cordel genre; 4) To elaborate a reading proposal of cordel genre for an eighth grade class of Fundamental School. In doing so, it sought through this research to find a response to the following question: which strategies to use in classroom working with Cordel genre to form critical and competent readers? The theoretical support of this research is based on authors like Terra (2014), Cosson (2014), Marinho and Pinheiro (2012), Galvão (2006), Wachowicz (2012), Marcuschi (2002; 2008), Costa (2010), Santos (2006), Weitzel (1995) among others with similar relevance. To make this work real it was accomplished as for the approach on research with quali-quantitative character and, as for the methods a descriptive one allying to bibliographical search. The results presented confirm that textual genre cordel originated frompopular literature stirs up the student to analyze their own reality at the same time that they are inserted at the world of reading/listening and texts interpretation, beyond awaking up themselves the pleasure of reading associated with the desire of wanting to discuss about themes related to the sociocultural experience considering that this promotes freedom of expression.