As práticas de leitura presentes na população carcerária do presídio de Igarassu

Abstract

The actual work aimed to investigate the reading practice present among the jail population in Igarassu Penitentiary. It was necessary to conceive a theory revision of three reading conceptions: cognitive, socio interaction and discursive. Being aware of that the social environment influences directly the reading act from that people, we used the theory notes from the socio interaction perspective that identify the peculiarities in the proper activity of senses construction in the relation among author, reader and text. Among the bookish linking to reading, we used Kleiman (2007), Kato (2007), Bakhtin (1999), Antunes (2005), Koch (2005) e Orlandi (2006). With the purpose of analyzing the instruction degree of the prisoners, we did a deep analysis in the Soares s (1998), Costa s (2000) and Correa & Saleh s (2007) literatures that approached the instruction events in the social institutions and the relation between instruction and alphabetization. Independently from the social environment that occurs the instructions events, there is an inter subjective quality process between the subject and the language, by the dialogic nature that the word contains, as Bakhtin (1999) assures. In order to validate this study, we used the methodological procedures of the field research, inquiring into and the one that appeal to the qualitative analysis criteria. From the observations, we summarized our data to the individuals that attend school and the library, trying to delineate the prisoners reading profile. Following, in order to evaluate the prisoners instructions level, we reduced our data to only five interviewees, who were previously selected by the teaching staff to interpret five texts from different genders and themes. After analyzing the obtained results, we believe that a set of public policies assisted by the reading process can be useful as a model to others prisons units of Pernambuco State in order that the re-socialization process naturally occurs.