MENTAL MAPS and retextualization activities: redefining reading and writing based on the biography of Zila Mamede
Mind Map; biography of Zila Mamede; retextualization; didactic sequence.
This study focuses on Moreira's Theory of Meaningful Learning (1982) with the aim of promoting writing among elementary school students. From the point of view of this theoretical approach, the learner acquires new knowledge when it is possible to integrate it in an interactive and meaningful way with other relevant prior knowledge (Moreira, 2010). Thus, difficulties in practicing writing following expository models already advocated by teaching are largely explained by the rigidity of such models, which are not easily integrated with the student's interests and prior knowledge. In this context, this work aims to contribute to the improvement of reading and writing proficiency of elementary school students, developing an intervention proposal based on the development by students of mental maps from the retextualization of the biography of Zila da Costa Mamede (Godmother of the library) of the José Augusto Foundation. The aim is to investigate and prove the potential of a pedagogical proposal that combines active methodologies, such as mind maps, to promote greater autonomy and motivation among students in carrying out their reading, writing and retextualization practices. The research is based on the contributions of the studies of Literacy Schweuwly and Dolz (2004), Marcuschi (2001), Travaglia (1993), Matêncio (2002), Dell’Isola (2007), of the discursive genres Bakhtin (2003), Dolz, Noverraz and Schneuwly (2004) and of the Theory of Meaningful Learning Ausubel, (1980), Moreira (2010), Buzan (2009). In the first phase, of an interventional nature, a didactic sequence will be developed and applied with activities involving reading Zila Mamede's biography and creating mental maps by 9th grade students at the Zila Mamede State School, during the 2024 school year. In the second, of an interpretative nature, the transformations that took place during the process of retextualizing mental maps will be analyzed and it will be discussed whether such results confirm the potential of mental maps in improving students' reading and writing skills and in redefining new knowledge in the retextualization process, thus enhancing the teaching and learning process.