A literatura infantil e a formação humanística no cotidiano da sala de aula

Abstract

In this study we sought to determine the relevance of aesthetic function in children's literature, for humanistic education, discussing the relationship between education and literary education. The understanding of children's literature in its various aspects and potentials generated the experience that this work refers, and provided methodological alternatives in which the literary text becomes motivation for the opinion written text in literacy. From the knowledge acquired in the literature review, some works were selected from literary source of the school to experience an aesthetic reading experience with representative themes of cultural diversity in the classroom for the first year of elementary school. Thus, we aim yet to contribute to the teacher training and pedagogical practices to enhance the literary aesthetic function, as a pledge of meaningful learning. This research is a organized as qualitative and exploratory. The field of study is a public school in the city of Campina Grande, Paraíba. The collaborators were the students of the first year, the literacy teachers and technical-pedagogic team. The records in a field diary, reports of books related to the themes, interviews and children's productions constitute the main instruments of data collection. The perspective of data analysis is descriptive and qualitative based on symbolic interactionism, in which human experience is mediated by interpretation, in that the individual interacts socially with each other. The recepcional method was used to perform interventions with the literary text. The guiding theoretical and critical contribution of this study is based on Compagnon (2010, 2012), Zilberman (1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 2007; 2008;) Jauss (1979, 1994), Saraiva (2001), Soares (2003), Cosson (2006, 2010), Marcuschi (2008) and Ribeiro (2009). The communication of ideas and opinions regarding the representative issues of the cultural and physical diversity, namely gender, obesity, physical appearance, ethnic-racial and disability, seek to foster dialogic interaction between author, reader and mediated text, and collective discussions encourage the writing of the opinion text. The results of data analysis show that the interaction and mediation between the literary work and the reader can lead children to prospecting, namely the recasting of expectations by presenting new perspectives motivated by disruption and expansion of the horizon of expectations, the result of dialogical work with the infant literature.