Letramento familiar e letramento escolar: coexistentes, complementares ou independentes?

Abstract

This thesis presents an investigation about the family and the school as contexts of literacy. As diverse institutional domains, the family and the school produce their own literacy. At school, literacy begins with reading and writing. In the family, literacy materializes, basically, by the use of oral language. The study of this theme arose from the need to deepen an understanding about family and school as spaces of formation of social subjects. As Street (2014) defines, literacy is social; Therefore, cultural, differently constructed in different peoples and different cultures. In this context (STREET, 2014), this research is based on the discursive practices of families as constitutive practices of family literacy. A literacy complexed by the relationships established in this context, according to the level of education of its members, who very commonly value school literacy, but do not always have it and do not always use reading or writing texts in their daily lives. The general objective of this research is to investigate how families of a specific city have built family literacy and school literacy. The theoretical-methodological support is the Critical Discourse Analysis (ADC) articulated to the Social Theory of Literacy (TSL): this for analysis of the events and practices of literacy and the other for analysis of the representational meaning, based on the system of transitivity, and the meaning identification, for analysis the modality and the evaluation. This research is qualitative in nature, with an ethnographic-discursive approach. At the conclusion of the research, there are indications that families value school literacy and construct family literacy in the daily life of the family; with evidence that family literacy and school literacycoexist in a complementary relationship.