A literatura e os estudos literários na escola: algumas reflexões

Abstract

The classroom is a privileged space to readers’ formation. However, many factors contribute that schools have difficulties to fulfill their strategic role to motivate the reading habit of literary texts among young readers. The aim of this essay is to share reflections about the teacher’s role as a reading mediator. Throughout the essay, we ask ourselves about the basis that guides and explains teaching literature in the classroom, from our experience in teaching formation by means of disciplines in Language course, supervised practice, research projects, extension actions and teaching initiation programs. This attitude demands an active and curious teacher, capable of stimulating his/her students to the esthetical effects that literature evokes, mediate discussions that lead to interpretation about the literary text and get it closer to the benefits that literature can contemplate.