LITERACIES AS ELEMENTS OF VALUATION AND PRESERVATION OF CULTURAL MEMORY: (RE) KNOWLEDGE OF HISTORICAL-CULTURAL DIVERSITY IN THE PLACES OF THE CENTER OF FORTALEZA
Critical literacy. Squares. Literacy projects. Memories.
The society cultural habits have changed and the rising wave of violence throughout some capital cities in Brazil have contributed to the abandonment of public squares in the city centre of Fortaleza. Thus, lots of local cultural aspects have been forgotten. In order to consider this matter, the literacy which circulates the public squares named by Ferreira, José de Alencar and Martíres ( or Passeio Público) in the city centre of Fortaleza has been chosen as the object of this study. In order to practice reading , writing and orality at school as elements of preservation of memories which circulates the public squares in the city centre of Fortaleza, Ceará. This study intends to discuss the potential literacy as elements of preservation and appreciation of the local culture. The specific objective aims to : 1) develop a literacy project which works as a didatic device of preservation and appreciation of collective memory ; 2) develop a literacy project in which students act as researchers of local cultures in their communities, by the articulation of school knowledge and local knowledge; 3) create an e-book with the memories produced by the collaborators of the developed literacy project. This study is based theoretically on the literacy studies (STREET, 1983; BAYNHAM, 1995; KLEIMAN, 1995; 2000; OLIVEIRA; KLEIMAN, 2008); multiliteracy approach (ROJO, 2009), critical pedagogy (FREIRE, 1984; MACLAREN, 1997) ; memories and cultural studies (LE GOFF, 1990) and literacy project studies KLEIMAN, 2000; OLIVEIRA; TINOCO; SANTOS, 2014; OLIVEIRA, 2016). This study is inserted methodologically in the qualitative research ethnographic paradigm (MOITA LOPES; 2006; MENEZES; SILVA; GOMES, 2009; (BOGDAN; BIKLEN, 1994). The data were generated from semi-structured interviews, application of questionnaires and records made in the study notes. This study allowed the comprehension that reading and writing do not need to be dealt as classroom issues (OLIVEIRA,2017), but as tools which contribute to solve problems that go beyond the school walls, but that interfere directly in the students life. Therefore, we understand the importance of a Literacy Project in which we make use of reading and writing as elements of preservation and appreciation of the local culture.