Semeando o prazer de ler: mediação da leitura com crianças e adolescentes da casa de acolhimento Santa Maria Goretti em João Pessoa - PB

Abstract

It addresses the relevance of reading in childhood, in a shelter for children and adolescents in João Pessoa (PB). Builds the theoretical foundation with reading in the timeline (Fernandez and Kanashiro, 2011), (Chartier, 1994); reading in the construction of life (Abramovich, 1996), (Well, 1986), the importance of the reading mediator (Souza, 2004, Silva 1992), (Ferreira, 1994); Right to Reading and Mediation (Candido, 1995; Piúba, 2012). Brings the following research questions: How do the reading practices of children and adolescents who live in a shelter, far from their families, occur? Who are the mediators of reading practices in the host homes? What references do children and adolescents who live in foster care have to awaken the pleasure of reading, or the love of books? It analyzes how the process of reading mediation occurs at the Casa de Alhinho Santa Maria Goretti – João Pessoa (PB). It applies the conversation method, which consists of creating spaces for dialogue, in which people express themselves, listen to others and to themselves, thus stimulating the construction of the subjects' autonomy through questioning, information sharing and sharing. reflection for action. It presents conversation as a research method. It is characterized as a field research, exploratory and descriptive with a qualitative approach. It uses the interview as a data collection instrument. Considering that reading plays an important role in the child's learning process. It considers that social problems and the lack of investment in education create barriers for the pleasure of reading to be experienced by few children and adolescents. He emphasizes that it is fundamental to promote the encounter with the book from the “earliest age” to awaken the taste for reading. It concludes that we must become mediators and encouragers of reading with and adolescents, in order to motivate them to seek knowledge, to acquire autonomy of thought, to model their subjectivity. For this, it is necessary to embrace the mission of sowing reading!