Letramento e práticas de escrita na educação de jovens e adultos: aplicabilidades didático-pedagógicas do gênero autobiografia.

Abstract

This research presents an investigation into the work with writing in school, under the view of the use of practices of social literacy, which advocates the need to consider culture, prior knowledge and values of students as essential elements to build their texts. The goal is to reframe, under a literacy perspective, theoretical-methodological activities of production of written text applicable to Adult and Youth Education. For this, activities that include the genres, especially autobiography, were carried out from the methodology adopted by Calkins (1989), who focuses on the process of production of texts, more than just the final product, as commonly happens in schools. As school literacy practices, the teachings of Calkins are based on the interaction between students and their personal involvement in the production process of their writings, through situated and therefore significant and motivating contexts for the activities in the classroom. As a theoretical basis, besides Calkins (1989), it was considered mainly Freire's contribution (1987), Kleiman's (1995), PCN's (1998), Marcuschi (2008), Bortoni-Ricardo and Machado's (2013), while the applied methodology is in a bibliographic research, using a qualitative approach to outline a retrospect of Youth and Adult Education within the Brazilian educational panorama, addressing the question of the identity of the subjects involved and contextualizing the reality of Youth and Adult Education centers in the state of Ceará. In this context, it presents an analysis of the situation of these school models, as well as the profile of the pupils they teach, and also a brief discussion of the teaching materials used at Centro de Educação de Jovens e Adultos Professor Milton Cunha (one of these centers), which still requires enhancements to suit the linguistic theories. Given these issues, it is necessary to create new teaching strategies that support the language studies, with regard to: literacy, text, text genres, including the autobiography, which aim to improve the text production of students. Given the need for activities in situated contexts, this paper aims to present an intervention proposal made in accordance with the sociointeractionist perspective, consisting of a theoretical and methodological support for the work of teachers, with suggestions for activities to be worked in workshops of reading and writing, under a literacy perspective.