Abstract

VOVIO, Claudia Lemos. Discourses about reading: between unity and plurality. Perspectiva [online]. 2010, vol.28, n.02, pp.401-431. ISSN 0102-5473.

This paper discusses about approaches to reading that cross and constitute current discourses about this social practice and its meanings, therefore influential in the ways to focus attention on objects and in the analysis made in research on literacies (STREET, 1984; KLEIMAN, 1995; BARTON; HAMILTON; IVANIC 2000; GEE, 2000, 2004). The adopted epistemology understands reading as a cultural practice produced in/by the relations between human groups at specific times and social spaces, making it variable. As such, it is influenced by phenomena that bring in their wake the necessity of reading as a desirable cultural practice: the legitimacy (of collective beliefs that constructed the reading as a necessary practice) and the inequality with respect to the distribution of opportunities, the diffusion of practices, competencies and objects (LAHIRE, 2002, 2006). Addressing these current discourses and the approaches relevant to them allows, on the one hand, to understand on what grounds the discourses of tradition and of the canon were produced and turned into watersheds capable of distinguishing groups and individuals, defining what counts, what has value, scaling and rating readers and readings and, on the other hand, to organize plans from which one can examine the reading practices, the meanings attributed to this doing and the cultural artifacts accessed by the subjetcs involved.

Keywords : Literacy; Reading Practices; Reader Training.

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