Caminhos da leitura: um olhar para o incentivo à leitura entre os jovens brasileiros

Abstract

The present monograph presents itself as an essential part for an effective graduation in the bachelor's degree in librarianship at the Federal University of Ceará, and aims to investigate the state of the art about encouraging reading among young people in Brazil, in order to understand what causes distancing or bringing young people closer to reading and its practices. Thus, as a methodology, firstly, the linear study about the history of reading and its understandings, inside and outside Brazil, so that then it can be clarified, for the contemporaneity, what reading is as a cognitive activity, social and communicational and how it can bring benefits to the lives of young Brazilians, which will be done through the hermeneutic analysis of the various existing theories about the subject. Next, an analysis of current data on reading in Brazil is carried out, as well as a quantitative analysis of existing research in the area. In this way, the research can be characterized as exploratory and qualitative. Finally, as a result, it is possible to highlight the difficulties of encouraging reading practices as a whole, considering, for example, the variety of supports and technologies constantly disputing our attention, instead of being supports of support and even encouragement to reading – which would be the ideal scenario. This is just one of the factors that affect the construction of a reading culture inside and outside schools. In this way, it can be concluded that, more than ever, it is necessary to debate about issues like this and to combat obstacles to encouraging reading, through actions aimed at adapting to new technologies and different information supports, as well as understanding the different socioeconomic and cultural contexts in which each young person is inserted. All of this is also necessary, as the scientific and academic community strives to cover this informational gap that we currently have on topics related to reading practices and incentives.