Letramento literário, adolescência e poesia na escola : oficinas literárias com alunos do ensino médio noturno.

Abstract

This dissertation aims to reflect on poetry as an effective practice of literacy in school, trying to verify how students in the 3rd grade of high school of a public school interact and assimilate the poetic text. This research also points out the role that teaching practices in literary literacy carry through poetry in the view and in the way this group appropriates of the literary text. To develop this study, as a first step, it was done a literature review in order to seek an approach and theoretical study about the topic of this dissertation which is focused on): literacy and literary literacy; adolescence x adolescent worker and night students, as well as, at last, young people and literature, focusing specifically on poetic text. The second part of this study consisted in a field research by which the reader profiles of the participating students were investigated. Furthermore, it was developed a proposal for literary poetry workshops aiming to provide the students a different way to learn and find out meanings which are beyond the words in order to interpret the texts as well as relate them to their own life experiences. In parallel, it was analyzed how students interact to poetic texts. In addition, the role of this text genre was thought in the way the group of students appropriate themselves of literature. Based on the research results, working with poetry can be constituted as a practice of literary literacy in school. However, in order to work appropriately with literary text it is necessary to follow the theory according to what the researchers point out about literary literacy.