CORDEL: LITERARY ENCHANTING ARTIST IN CLASSROOM.
Reading. Cordel. Poetry. Teaching.
This research, of an interventional nature, was carried out with 7th grade students, from elementary school, from a state public school in the municipality of Santa Cruz / RN. Firstly, it deals with reading from the perspective of the PCNS (1998), pointing out the need for continuous and permanent work, for the construction and implementation of a policy of training readers in schools, through daily work with reading. We know that there are several ways to encourage reading in the classroom, so we chose to read cordel as a possibility of enchantment, considering its importance as an artistic and cultural artifact, as a typical Northeastern manifestation, for believing it capable of “literary catharsis” that the enjoyment of its reading can provoke, as well as, for the multiple known possibilities that are inherent to it. We present texts from the popular literary canon, as well as providing opportunities for contact with various texts by local and regional cordelistas, in order to enhance the literary and cultural productions of the state. In this intervention-based research, the general objective was to investigate the reception given by students to the cordel genre through data obtained and analyzed through the reading of a given clipping. As specific objectives, we seek to verify the barriers that go through the training of the reader in the classroom, especially with regard to poetic literacy, in addition to assessing the importance of reading the cordel in the training of the reader, through data analysis produced by participating students. To attest to the success of our intervention, we start from the following problem: given the lack of interest in reading in the classroom, can the cordel, due to the playful character that it serves to restore the desire to read? We question how to treat reading in the classroom with the necessary rigor for the student to achieve reading proficiency. The application of action research and the analysis of results were guided by the assumptions of THIOLLENT (2011), and the basic sequence applied was based on the workshops suggested by COSSON (2014). We also follow theoretical directions based on CANDIDO (1989, 2013), BOSI (2000), PINHEIRO (1995), BAKHTIN (2009), LAJOLO (1993,1997), SANTOS (2008), FREIRE (1996), GRAMSCI (1984, 2002), WALLON (1975, 1995), GASPARIN (2001), FÁVERO (2003), CHAUÍ (2009), AUSUBEL (1980), JAUSS (1994), among others.