Falando sobre racismo na aula de língua portuguesa: o uso da roda de conversa para o ensino/aprendizagem de um tema transversal

Abstract

In the educational context, especially in the first cycle of Elementary School, conversation circles play an important role in developing students' communication and critical thinking skills. This is because studies show that they provide a safe and inclusive space for students to express their opinions and debate ideas, thus developing a critical sense. Our intention in this work is to verify how conversation circles play this role in the Elementary II classroom, especially regarding work with transversal themes, in this case, racism; in addition to also seeking to demonstrate how they help in the development of students' oral literacy. Based on an intervention carried out in a classroom with an 8th grade class, we promoted two conversation circles whose thematic basis was racism, exploring verbal and multimodal aspects of speech with the students. This experience with a specific oral genre promoted the appropriation of knowledge about the organization of speech and stimulated the exploration and critical deepening of a transversal theme.