Reflexões sobre a própria prática em experiências de letramento e letramento matemático

Abstract

The investigation was a survey of the practice itself, carried out during 2019, with a class from the Elementary School from a public school in the city of Belém-PA. In the study, I assume the roles of teacher and researcher, and fulfill the objective of analyzing teaching experiences in the teaching practice itself, reflecting on literacy and mathematical literacy activities. The qualitative approach of investigation of the practice itself was added to the perspectives of literacies defended to reach the proposed objective. Twenty-eight students from an Elementary class under my responsibility in 2019 participated in the research. The methodological procedures included studies of basic research references; class records in a field diary with audio recording, photographic records and document analysis, which were articulated in a reflective report of the actions developed that included diagnoses of knowledge about mathematics and written language at the beginning of the school year and the proposal of organization of the classes through Didactic Sequences (DS) of which I highlighted one involving the poem genre “Balada para uma rima personalizada” and that made possible the analysis and reflections. The results point to the power of narratives that give rise to and enhance my role as a literacy teacher-researcher in the mediation of knowledge in the classroom and demonstrate the understanding of the complex and contradictory act of teaching and learning mathematics and mother tongue, from the perspective of literacy with appreciation of the mathematical and linguistic strategies in the written records of the students, which reveal representations about this knowledge. This led me to rethink ways of relating to mathematics and of conducting teaching in my didactic proposals, with the creation of strategies in which students, in groups, were led to dialogue, debate among themselves and create their own means of learning, understanding mathematics in a perspective of knowledge constructed through meanings and representations attributed to concepts, in order to organize, understand and act in the world around them, especially when challenged to solve problem situations. In the same way, this problematization and actions during the DS were important to stimulate the desirable advances in reading and writing, given the interaction with the written material and perceptions of the functions of the approached textual genre. These findings denote the promotion of the constitution of students' autonomy, with emphasis on the integrative role sought in the teaching-learning process of the language and mathematical notions. In conclusion, it is worth saying that the research experiences and the reflections that took place in it allowed me to rethink a paradigm of disciplinary teaching of curricular components, through a mobilizing proposal for the integration of this knowledge in the process of literacy and literacy as a social construction that could have repercussions in the school life of the participating students, who will continue their literacy journeys during schooling and life in society.