Abstract

CHAVES, Priscila Monteiro  and  KOEHLER, Andressa Dias. Denying literature reading today to contain the political organization tomorrow: who is the aesthetic formation for?. Rev. Diálogo Educ. [online]. 2021, vol.21, n.68, pp.409-434.  Epub May 11, 2021. ISSN 1981-416X.  https://doi.org/10.7213/1981-416x.21.068.ao06.

This essay discusses psychological and philosophical assumptions for the aesthetic formation of the child along the literature reading experience. In this bias, briefly problematizes policies of access to reading promoted by the Ministry of Education; deals with imagination and creativity, through a Vygotskyan perspective, as human activity determined by culture and language; and the concepts of dialectical image and mimesis, according to Walter Benjamin, conceiving literary reading contrary to the instruction of moral content, informative, of simple fun, of didactic character for language teaching or, even, of free and spontaneous interpretation by the child. This effort is justified by the need to discuss the aesthetic dimension of children’s literary reading as a way for them to access their most conflicting feelings, to excel the boundaries of standardized conduct, to participate in culture, to make the experience meaningful, develop creative activity and conciliate ways of relating to the world. This is closely linked to a perspective of formation that does not fit work moral - which proposes conciliatory, pragmatic and utilitarian ideas that promote political restraint -, but to the need to train, as fully as possible, as a subject of historical knowledge since childhood.

Keywords : Children’s Literature; Imagination; Political restraint; Aesthetic training; Moral driving.

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