Representações e práticas de leitura de professores e estudantes do curso de Pedagogia de uma faculdade particular.

Abstract

When we study about reading practices its possible to get in the structures of meaning in a culture and society and because of this we face and understand how sociocultural representation guides peoples life. Thus, its possible for us to understand how the construction of meaning can characterize anti-hegemonic and resistant movements. Therefore the present research aims at identifying and verifying how teachers and students representations of reading contribute to build up their praxis in a Pedagogy course from a private college. The study of this theme in a higher education level allows questioning, reflecting on and discussing the reading process at this stage of schooling. Four teachers and ten students from the Pedagogy course, belonging to the first and last semesters (morning and evening groups) were selected. The research is qualitative and audio recorded and interview transcripts were used as research tools. Once the data were obtained, from the subjects responses, they were analyzed according to theoretical remarks previously studied. This provided insights, that based on studies from Reading, Reading History, Education, Sociology areas etc allow us to reflect on the subjects social representations of reading. As a result, it was possible to claim that the constitution of the higher education level, especially Pedagogy course, reflects on teachers and students reading practices and determine the way they treat reading as a superficial and limited view of the reading process and that the reading practice in the Pedagogy course deserves to have the attention of all the involved people as they will spread reading in the kindergarten and elementary school levels.