A leitura das salas

Abstract

Focusing on Polo Reading Classes (special spaces equipped with reading materials and multimedia features) in the city of Rio de Janeiro, this study undertakes a reading that aims at analyzing the concepts that have sustained the configuration of these spaces and the practices developed therein, dealing with the conceptions of reading in current literature and emphasizing the contribution of the discursive perspective for the referral of matters relating to the break with the traditional teaching model, based on the administration of the supposedly single direction. Therefore, it examines the legal provisions governing the Reading Classes and the real conditions under which such practices happen, seeking to articulate the macro and micro levels of analysis through the cycle of policies formulated by Stephen Ball and collaborators, focusing on the relationships between the contexts of influence, text production and practice. It takes a qualitative approach, within which a case study, in spite of being aware of the impossibility of generalizations, has been chosen so as to deepen the daily systematic observations and constant dialogue with the teachers responsible for implementing the proposal in two state schools. The detailed description of both contexts of practice refers to considerations about the reconfiguration of the Reading Classes , their determinants and the reinterpretations produced by the staff involved. As the period of fieldwork coincided with significant changes in the context of influence and text production, the intention is to systematize elements to analyze the ways it reaches the context of practice and the possibilities of reconfiguring the space of Reading Classes .