THE INSTAGIBLE LENGTH OF AESTHETIC AND ETHICS IN THE READING OF VERBOVOCOVISUAL POEMS IN MIDDLE SCHOOL
Aesthetics. Ethics. Verbivocovisual. Literature Teaching. Classroom Chronotope.
The intervention research project originated from considerations on academic experience, in the professional Master’s degree at UFRN, and the author’s own history of Literature teaching inside the classroom. It problematizes the themes of ethics and aesthetics, under the conceptual bakhtinian perspective, with the aid of the verbivocovisual category and its interaction with the space provided to aesthetics in the school chronotope. The theoretical framework utilizes contributions by Bakhtin (2010, 2011, 2015, 2017), regarding the linguistic conceptions of the aesthetic and the ethical conduct, text genres and the chronotope; as well as a few Bakhtin scholars, such as Brait (2016), Bemong (2015), Renfrew (2017), Faraco (2009) and Casado-Alves (2012). It is also supported by Rojo (2012, 2015), on the concept of the prototype as an “open structure”, and by Stafuzza (2016, 2019), about the verbivocovisual analyses. Besides Candido’s contributions (1995, 2012, 2016), in order to discuss literature and the development of the reader and the critical producer of literary texts, and Dias (2015, 2016), on literature in school and in the classroom. In addition to some official documents, as the LDB (1996), the PCN (2000) and the BNCC (2017), considering what they remark on more specifically to the study of literature. The general objective consists in investigating how verbivocovisuality contributes to amplifying the role of and for the aesthetics perception in the school chronotope, aiming to broaden the discursive knowledge of students. This relates to the following specific objectives: problematizing how the teaching of Literature may pave the way to privileging aesthetics in the realm of school activities, aided by verbivocovisual analyses, and contributing to systematize studies concerning verbivocovisuality, under the theoretical methodology of Bakhtin Circle’s propositions, through the elaboration of teaching material about aesthetics, approached dialogically. As far as methodological procedures are concerned, this research is anchored in works of a qualitative-interpretative nature under a historical-cultural approach. The research corpus was built out of the material developed throughout the conclusion of prototype stages (field notes, surveys, interviews, workshop activities) collected through workshop records and poems produced by students. Regarding the observance of the research, it is going to be implemented in a first year public high school class, in Ceará. Two methodological strategies will be adopted, that is, working with prototypes, which consist in flexible SDs (Didactic Sequences) and open structures, as proposed by Rojo (2012), and applying five main steps. These are: S1 –the instilling of awareness and introduction to a poetic writing project; S2 – organization of debates on ethics and aesthetics in the world; S3 – poetry reading workshops; S4 – workshops for the study and analyses of verbivocovisual elements in general and poetic text genres; S5 – a conclusion event in the form of a Verbivocovisual Poetry Contest.