A biblioteca escolar sob o olhar dos docentes: estudo no ensino fundamental I do Colégio Marista Pio X localizado na cidade de João Pessoa-PB

Abstract

Schools are dynamic places projected towards educating and developing individuals for social and academic life. A well-structured library, managed by specialized professionals, with proactive librarians, is an important tool in the student learning process, especially when projects which encourage students and educators to use the library as a creative and dynamic place are executed for this purpose. On this basis, this study analyses elementary school teachers’ perceptions at the Colégio Marista Pio X School in João Pessoa, in relation to school library perspectives in teaching and developing students. In order to do so, a profile was drawn of the elementary school teachers , the way in which the teachers include the library in the development of pedagogical activities was observed, and whether the school library answers the teachers’ needs for information in their teaching-learning strategies was evaluated. Methodologically, this quantitative-qualitative descriptive study applied a mixed questionnaire to collect data among the elementary school teachers. Results indicated that detected that teachers visit the library and include it in the development of their pedagogical activities, encouraging visits to the library through reading projects at the institution and referring books to students for study purposes. It is also perceived that the library attends to the informational needs of teachers in the teaching-learning process since in the Marist College Pio X the school library is valued as a learning space. Therefore, the BE that is linked to the Pedagogical Center intensifies the role of the library as a pedagogical tool with projects to encourage the culture of study and reading. This statement is strengthened by the teachers' view that the library has the purpose of collaborating for reading, research and play activities in the teaching and learning process.