Literatura de cordel e a relação com a leitura: contribuições para o processo de ensino aprendizagem

Abstract

This research investigates cordel literature and its contribution to teaching, in order to be a culture that portrays a worldview and expresses personal and cultural knowledge. Hence its relation with reading in the classroom, with teaching in school. The main objective of this work is to analyze the relationship between cordel literature and reading. For the accomplishment of this study a bibliographical research in works of national authors was realized, with the intention to understand the importance of this literary genre. The sources for the study are composed of the works of Pinheiro (2001) and Freire (1981). It was used as an instrument of data collection a script choosing categories such as: reading, literacy, playfulness, teaching in the classroom. The results of the study show the importance of cordel literature and its scope, since cordel presents the culture of a people and teaching can not be far from that culture. The cordel genre in the classroom, besides being dynamic, can contribute to the learner's learning process, as it gives the learner a social and critical understanding of the learner. It also highlights the importance of reading in the student's literacy process from the reality presented in the cords.