WRITING AS IDENTITY PRACTICE: Processes of Linguistic Consciousness and Personal Transformation
KEYWORDS: Literacy. Literacy workshops. Identity writing.
When working with Youth and Adult Education - EJA, there is an audience marked by difficulties in the schooling process, therefore, insecure when using writing in various social practices. These students, excluded from regular education for various reasons, generally have low self-esteem, therefore, critical pedagogical practices are needed to assist them in identity repositioning. Therefore, this study aims to use writing as an instrument of perception of the “I”, enabling the student to know and also to know the other and, therefore, to feel safer in this graphocentric society. In this sense, we understand that it is up to the teacher, as an agent of literacy, to redefine the teaching of the mother tongue through literary workshops based on textual genres, which aim to minimize the most immediate needs of these subjects. This dissertation fits in the field of Applied Linguistics (LEFFA, 2001; MOITA LOPES, 1994, 2009), specifically in the Literacy studies (STREET, 1984, 2003; KLEIMAN, 1995, 2000; OLIVEIRA, 2008, 2010). Methodologically, the research is qualitative and interpretative, with an ethnographic bias (CANÇADO, 1994; STREET, 2003; CALEFFE, 2006). Data were generated from a literacy project (KLEIMAN, 2000; OLIVEIRA, 2008; OLIVEIRA; TINOCO; SANTOS, 2014), exploring various textual genres. The actions of the project “Writing as an Identity Practice” were carried out through literacy workshops, focusing on writing and textual genres as tools in the reconstruction of each student's personal image, based on strengthening the student-school-society relationship.