Jogos de linguagem na alfabetização matemática

Abstract

The objective of this thesis was to understand the functioning of language, based on Wittgenstein's concept of language game, its function in the acquisition of knowledge and its relevance for teaching numbers in literacy. For this, an investigation was carried out through the teaching practices of a literacy teacher regarding the concept of number. This investigation was based on theoretical-philosophical assumptions supported by the reflections of the second Wittgenstein, more precisely on Wittgenstein's own philosophical therapy and Moreno's Epistemology of Use, also inspired by Wittgenstein. Thus, it was discussed the function of language in the constitution of the concept of number and the epistemological conceptions of number in two perspectives, a Piagetian and a Morenian, and how they can significantly modify the practice of the literacy teacher. The empirical research, which provided the data for the analyses, was carried out with a literacy teacher from a municipal public school in Belem do Para and consisted of observations from a class on numerical writing in the Indo-Arabic Decimal Numbering System. The conclusion reached and announced in this thesis is that the understanding of the functioning of language, based on the concept of language game and that the first relations of the linguistic sense are already epistemic activities, places language at the center of the process educational and points to other possibilities, different from those hegemonically present in the field of Mathematics Education, of conceiving the teaching of mathematics, which may have important consequences in relation to the teaching practices of the teacher who teaches mathematics and the learning of students, especially in literacy.