Programa Nacional Biblioteca da Escola: PNBE do correio à sala de aula

Abstract

The National School Library Program (Programa Nacional Biblioteca na Escola, PNBE) is a government project to distribute literary and teaching works to eke out the lack of supply about such materials by the government. PNBE and the theoretical foundations of reading, language and mediation make up the core theme of this dissertation, which addresses aspects of reading, language, literature, and the role played by PNBE as a provider and distributor of collections. The objective of this research is to investigate the process of reception and use of literary collections of PNBE in the classroom and the teachers point of view in the early years of elementary school. The research was conducted with teachers and librarians in a public school in Uberlândia, Minas Gerais, a city that received the collections of PNBE and it was developed throughout 2011, with probing, first contacts and structuring the project, and in 2012, accompanying the school in a closer way to its reality. The methodology employed is related to ethnographic approaches to systematize the preference for qualitative research with specificities that responded to the investigation s yearnings. Data were generated by the documentary analysis, participant observation and semi-structured interviews. Therefore, the data analysis indicated that the collection of PNBE is not released, and there is not a policy or program of mediators training, courses or guidelines to those people that welcome, disseminate and use that material. The books distribution is an essential measure to improve school collections; however, it is not enough to expand the access to reading and children literacy. In order to analyze this program in a real work use, the research aims according to the cultural-historical theory and the knowledge and experiences of educational professionals to understand by teachers voice the support absences of the program and the way the processes occur mediation towards literature books. The dissertation draws attention to the various problems in that school that can be a reflection of other institutions across the country, which corroborate the necessity to present failures of PNBE and disseminate the discourses of teachers that need to be heard, understood and supported in development of real work proposals with education and literacy in reading and literature.