Banca de DEFESA: JAILSON LUCENA DANTAS

THE SCHOOL-ORIENTED RESEARCH: A PRACTICE OF INFORMAL LITERACY IN A CLASS OF 8TH YEAR OF FUNDAMENTAL EDUCATION

Informational literacy. Teaching of Portuguese Language. Action research.

We live in a society in which there is wide availability of information, especially due to the advent and popularization of digital tecnologies from the last decades. But has the school prepared its students to know how to deal with this range of informational resouces available in a safe and autonomous way? Although the PCNs have already point out that this would be one of the school’s responsability, we realized that it has not yet fully complied this function, since the students present many difficulties in relation to the search and use of information. In this context, we plan to promote a didactic intervention in an 8^th grade class from the EMEF Ana Maria Gomes, Picuí-PB, in order to analyze, from the development of information literacy practices, an improvement of student performance in terms of search, selection, mapping, evaluation and uses of the information and its contribution for a writting production in different literacy events. To base our research we transit through concepts of literacy (KLEIMAN, 1995; ROJO, 2009) and informational literacy (CAMPELLO, 2009). We will develop the intervention having as guidance the action-research because it involves a practical matter and its improvement, as well as a reflexion on this practice. We will still make a qualitative approach of the data emanated from the research which will be developed through didactic sequencies in which the students will develop skills for the accomplishment of the targeted research and for the improvement in dealing with informational resources in general.