Abstract

FREITAS, Vinícius Adriano de  and  GALUCH, Maria Terezinha Bellanda. To understand the literacy proposal: the textbook for the first year of elementary school in focus. Acta Educ. [online]. 2021, vol.43, e46902.  Epub Aug 01, 2021. ISSN 2178-5201.  https://doi.org/10.4025/actascieduc.v43i1.46902.

Underpinned by the Critical Theory of Society, the aim of this article was to understand the relationship between the orientation given to education and the initial teaching of the written language, and the proposal of cultural training for children in the process of learning to read and write. The data were collected in the textbook entitled ‘Aprender juntos: letramento e alfabetização’ (meaning ‘Learning together: literacy and learning to read and write’) intended for the literacy & reading/writing syllabus in the first year of elementary education. The analyses show that the presented proposal prioritizes situations of experience of the social application of reading and writing, with few activities devoted to the explicit study of the ability to read and write words, phrases or texts. Despite this orientation being predicated on the idea of the need to educate the critical subject, by emphasizing form (within the dualism of form and content), it ends up contributing to an education where the emphasis is on adapting to the prevailing reality, and therefore encourages pseudo-education.

Keywords : learning to read and write; literacy; textbook; critical theory of society.

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