STUDENT COUNCIL IN PORTUGUESE LANGUAGE TEXTBOOKS
Student council. BNCC. Textbook. Portuguese Language Teaching.
Historically, the student council is part of the Brazilian political movement, especially the high school students. However, our experience as a Portuguese language teacher, since 1996, allows us to affirm that it is not common for the student council that is formed in public schools of basic education in the countryside of Rio Grande do Norte as a space for participation in decisions. However, this can be changed by forces outside the school. One of them is the National Common Curricular Base (BRASIL, 2017), which, in the field of public life, explains the “free student council” in specific Portuguese Language skills, highlighting reading, listening, text production practices, as well as linguistic/semiotic analysis. Another strength comes from textbooks, which, to be approved by the National Book and Teaching Material Program (PNLD), need to meet the requirements of the National Common Curricular Base (BNCC) and, therefore, incorporate the skills contained therein. Aware of this movement, this dissertation, which has the student council as its object of study, is characterized, methodologically, for being documentary research of a qualitative and interpretive nature. Its general objective is to investigate how the representation of the BNCC student council is contemplated in two textbooks, whose collections were approved by the 2020 edition of the PNLD. To achieve it, we specifically aim to (i) understand aspects that characterize the insertion of the term "free student council" in the BNCC and (ii) analyze how the two selected textbooks appropriate the BNCC guidelines in their activities. Our analysis is based on the dialogical conception of the language of the Bakhtinian circle, the studies of literacy from a sociocultural perspective and critical pedagogy. The results show that, although the free student council is in the BNCC, this is not enough for it to be incorporated into textbooks, including those approved in the PNLD/2020. Between the two books that we analyzed, in the book of the 7th year of the Geração Alpha Portuguese language, the work with the student council is developed through a project that takes a semester and, in its activities, practices of reading and listening are glimpsed, as well as textual production (written and oral) and linguistic/semiotic analysis that, in fact, favour the creation of the student council and enable students to play a leading role in school and beyond. The work with the student council proposed by the book of the 6th year of Apoema Português, in turn, focuses on the texts that make up this association (the statute, for example) to explore rules of normative grammar. Faced with this limitation, we decided to present, as a detachable product, a collection of materials from different semiosis that deal with the student council. We think that this collection can contribute to teachers interested in the re-signification of Portuguese language teaching with a view to the exercise of citizenship and, for that, they observe, in the student council, productive space for literacies.