Apenas um CLICK!: revelando atos de leitura e escrita de jovens, adultos e idosos na prática social

Abstract

The aim of this study is to investigate, by means of photographic image, the reading and writing acts performed by young, adult and elderly learners in their social practice. To achieve this, I took as my research locus the subjects´ daily routine, where they produce knowledge and participate in reading and writing events, because I had found that few scientific studies in the academic literature consider the social practice as a suitable environment for training individuals for the world of literate culture. Photography was redefined, for the purpose of this work, as an instrument with which to collect data, and I recorded the different ways in which written material circulates within social spaces as well as the different ways young people, adults and elderly people read and write in their daily routine. In the modern age, individuals are often capable of reading the many languages that have become established in the world, but their participation in the graphocentric society is differenciated. Considering that the social practice mould individuals in the literate culture, I have chosen to investigate the expression of formative acts based on the concepts of availability, access, context and participation, in line with Kalman´s study (2009).