As contribuições da biblioteca para a pesquisa escolar: o caso da Biblioteca Juvenil Professor Manoel Helder Medeiros do Colégio 7 de Setembro

Abstract

Throughout the times, the educational Brazilian setting has been through many changes, mainly concerning to the teachers’pedagogical practices and the vision of a methodology centered on the teacher and also we have had changes on the conception of a student as a mere receptor. In this context, it is necessary to understand the problematization connected to the use of the school library in the process of students’learning, mainly taking this process as a school research. In order to achieve this goal, we question: How has the school research been used in the learning process? What is the students’conception of dealing with the school library? How can a school library contribute to the learning process? In attempt to answer those questions, we intent to investigate the contributions of the library on the learning process through the practice of school research and mainly we intent to investigate the effective actions of the school research as an alternative form of learning, to analyse the students’perception on running the school research, to investigate the use of the libraryroom as a local of learning and, at last, to investigate the tools which were available to work on a research. Selecting this object was due to the distance between the classroom and the library in terms of pedagogical activities, taking a library as a place where the learning process should be incentivated by means of the discovery and research. In this way, the library is a fundamental tool to establish and expand the school research, that is, this tool can help students and teachers to develop discussions in the classrooom and even it functions as “a laboratory of knowledge”. The methodology used to achieve our points was the empiricexplanatory way, this research took place in Juvenil Profº Manoel Helder Medeiros library in the school named Nila Gomes de Soárez that is a branch of Colégio 7 de Setembro school. The tools used to collect data were questionaries composed by blended questions applied to students from the second elementary level (Ensino Fundamental II) and semi-structed interview applied to the librarian. We also took the tecnique of avoiding bothering the library enviroment during the moment in which the students were filling out the questionaries. The results point out that, in spite of the pedagogic aims of Sete de Setembro school and its libraries orientation consist on the developing of the students’ skills, the library in analysis doesn't contribute to the effective foment of research as a manner of learning.