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Calcanhar de Aquiles: um estudo sobre quatro projetos de leitura implantados pelo governo de São Paulo no ensino fundamental, ciclo II, de 2000-2007

2010; Linguagem: Inglês

2639-6459

Valdirene Barboza de Araújo Batista,

Education Pedagogy and Practices

This work is the result of a research developed over three years, directed towards the study of four reading projects implemented by the Education Department of the State of Sao Paulo, within the elementary school, from 5th to 8th grades from 2000 to 2007, which were: “Teaching and Learning: building a proposal” (2000/2001), “Weaving Readings” (2004/2005), “Reading and Living: reading comprehension” (2005) and “Reading Time” (2005 / 2007). As the general objective, we attempted to describe and analyze the configuration of each text, as proposed by Maria do Rosario Longo Mortatti (UNESP, Marilia), in order to understand the goals and needs of their deployments in the realm of actions for promoting books and reading in that State. From this study, it was possible to coordinate the implementation of these projects to the discussions about the need to (re)democratization of education in the country, occurring more specifically, from the 1980s and 1990s, rooted in the questioning about the role being played by the school and the education period in which they now crave more intensively a new type of school: the “democratic school”, “inclusive” and “receptive”, in which reading and writing became considered as the basic condition for the full exercise of citizenship. The analysis of some formal aspects and the subjects on the set of documents produced within the development and deployment of these four projects show that, although each one has its own characteristics, it is possible to observe a series of overlapping phenomena in their textual settings, highlighting among them, the fact that the four projects were created to try to solve a problem diagnosed by external evaluation systems to school were developed and/or received advice from teachers in Sao Paulo universities, research centers and/or researchers in the field of Education or Languages; they worked as refresher courses and improvement of the framework for education professionals, modernly called as a continuing education course, and functioned as disseminators of theories, disseminating different theoretical and practical information about reading and teaching in public schools in Sao Paulo.