A criatividade na leitura e produção de textos literários na escola de Ensino Fundamental

Abstract

It was investigated, in this study, the place of creativity in formal education, in particular in Portuguese language classes at the elementary school, in order to build proposals for approaches and activities that promote creativity in reading and in the production of short narrative texts by 31 6th year students from a municipal school in Breves (PA), located on the island of Marajo. For this study, it was adopted the action research as a methodological position (THIOLLET, 2001) and involved, in addition to the survey and reading of the relevant bibliography to the theme, the use of preliminary exploratory instruments – a questionnaire and a sequence of textbook activities - to evaluate the reading and creative production of narrative texts by students and the consequent elaboration of a proposal for activities. This dissertation starts from the discussion of the complex concept of creativity, its evolution in Western thought and its relationship with formal education since, mainly, the studies of Alencar (2003, 2018, 2019), Lubart (2007) and Vigotski (1998); it continues with questions related to the teaching of reading and writing, adopts Geraldi (2010), Kleiman (2000), Maria (2016) and Colomer (2007), in addition to Rodari (1982) for the aspects of creative writing; it also describes the context and presents the results of the exploratory research; until concluding with the proposal of activities for the promotion of creativity in (and through) reading and writing narrative texts. The proposal was structured in 14 weekly meetings of 1h30 of duration, with reading texts of the oral culture of the municipality (“Mário Curica lost an eye.”), a narrative by Drummond (“The incapacity to be true”), and the two narratives initials of the book The Adventures of Little nose by Monteiro Lobato (“Little nose” and “Once”) and production and socialization of students' texts on literary clotheslines and virtual platforms.