Representações sociais de alunas do Projeto SESC Ler de Fortaleza sobre seu processo de aprendizagem inicial e formal da lectoescrita: uma análise intertextual e interdiscursiva

Abstract

In our research we investigate the social representations built by five students of a project called SESC Ler, in Fortaleza, about their initial and formal process of learning how to read and write, as well as about some aspects that this process involves, as living without knowing how to read and write. Aiming the approximation of different theoretical fields - Serge Moscovici’s (2007) theory of Social Representations, the Discourse Analysis of French orientation, and Genette’s (1982) intertextuality purposes, reviewed by Piègay-Gros (1996) - we consider the social representations as discursive practices, because both orientate the action of the persons and both lean on the discursive and collective memories to be built through a constant dialogism among the several texts and discourses which already exist. To analyze them, we delimited the relevant discursive spaces of the students’ narratives and we verified the discursive positions they assumed in their enunciations. Then, through a qualitative intertextual and interdiscursive analysis using the copresence relations of allusion and quotation, we identified eleven different aspects which characterize the social representations; from them we identified three social representations and eight characteristics that support them, which were organized according to the notions of central and peripheral systems (ABRIC, 1994), and which verse about the initial and formal process of learning how to read and write as a whole. The students relate about what made them come back to the school, about the motivations of learning how to read and write, about what the acquisition that reading and writing promote, as well as about life without knowing how to read and write and other social representations which were built.