Abstract

OLIVEIRA, Lucilia Vernaschi de; YAEGASHI, Solange Franci Raimundo  and  SHIGUNOV NETO, Alexandre. Social representations of basic education teachers about reading and writing. Educação e Filosofia [online]. 2023, vol.37, n.80, pp.845-874.  Epub Aug 31, 2023. ISSN 1982-596X.  https://doi.org/10.14393/revedfil.v37n80a2023-66172.

We base this text on the assumptions of the Theory of Social Representations (TSR), by Serge Moscovici (1925-2014). We set out as an objective to investigate the social representations (SR) of teachers about teaching and learning reading and writing in ninth grade students. For this, we carried out a qualitative field research, through semi-structured interviews with sixteen teachers from two public schools, one from each of the eight subjects that make up the school curriculum of the mentioned classes. We organize and discuss research data into eight semantic categories of analysis, as proposed by Bardin (2016). In general, the SR of the interviewed teachers show that most of their students do not have a taste for and assiduity in reading and writing practices, that they read little and when they do, it is basically to fulfill requests for assessment activities. On the other hand, when teachers were asked about their own tastes and proficiency in Portuguese, a considerable number of them represented their limits and difficulties for these activities. They also referred to the lack of reflections and studies on this topic in continuing education courses.

Keywords : Social Representations Theory; Reading and Writing; Elementary School; Teachers.

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