A importância da biblioteca escolar na formação de leitores

Abstract

This work is the result of a master's research in Education that aimed to analyze the mediation of literary reading organized by teachers in articulation with a school library of the municipal network of Belém under the perspective of the relationship between the educational practices carried out and the reading culture of the students, having as axes of analysis the teachers' conceptions about reading, literature, libraries, books and readers.The methodology adopted was based on a qualitative, bibliographic, descriptive and explanatory approach, based on the proposed objectives, which were: to identify the aspects that most influence in the awakening of the reading culture among the students; to allow a critical reflection on the actions of literary mediation that aim at the formation of readers; to investigate the theoretical conceptions of educators about reading, reader and mediator. The research subjects were not only teachers who work in the library but also those who perform their educational work in the classroom. The Municipal School of Primary Education "Republic of Portugal" was the field of research. As a tool used for data collection, participant observation and the interview with the teachers were carried out, followed by the content analysis of the data. As a theoretical reference, the following stand out: Wolfgang Iser (1996), Paulo Freire (2003; 2011) and L.S. Vigotski (1991; 2003; 2004), besides the contributions of scholars on the thematic field in question: Alberto Manguel (2004; 2014; 2017), Terry Eagleton (2006) and Ezequiel Theodoro a Silva (1998; 1999; 2005; 2009), among others.