Literatura e educação profissionalizante: a resistente relação entre o trabalho e a subjetividade humana

Abstract

The present work discusses the teaching of literature, in the context of career and technical education - CTE. We understand that this teaching modality has its genesis in the ideal of knowhow, without the need to reflect on the social implications or on the process as a whole. In order to raise or improve students' criticality in relation to access to literature, we analyzed the students' reception to a multidisciplinary project between the areas of languages and human sciences. In this research, studies were carried out on the importance of literature in school (BERNARDES, 2021); teaching literature (FRANCHETTI, 2021; WALTER, 2014); subjective reading (HOOKS, 2013; BAJOUR, 2012) and professional education and work (MANACORDA, 2007). The research is of a qualitative nature, organized as action research in which the methodology consists of five steps. In the initial stage, students answer a form about their experience and interest in literature. Then, in the second stage, classes are carried out on the historical and political context of the Pre-modernism period and the thoughts that culminated in Brazilian Modernism (1922-1960). The three generations are discussed with a focus on the study of the Generation of 45, with the purpose of establishing relationships between the last generation and contemporary Brazilian works. The third stage, reading, is intended for direct contact with the work, in which students can read armed with information. In the fourth stage, students have the opportunity to produce artistic expressions in a project called “Contemporary Dialogues”, organized between the disciplines of literature, history, geography, philosophy and sociology in a technical school in Belém-PA. In the last stage, there is a final meeting with the students in the class to obtain information about the new experiences and the relationship they have with literary reading. The research analysis is comparativeinterpretative from the initial and final stages. Indeed, students in the 5th phase – referring to the 3rd year of regular high school – with the mediation of educators, must be inserted into Brazilian culture, starting from literature as art and object of study. We hope, in this research, to identify the importance attributed to literature in career and technical education contexts and to evaluate students' perceptions about the relevance of literary works.