Representações sociais de crianças do ensino fundamental de Ituiutaba/MG sobre o processo de alfabetização

Abstract

SOCIAL REPRESENTATIONS OF CHILDREN OF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL OF ITUIUTABA / MG ON THE LITERACY PROCESS

The following work presents a research developed in the Course of Pedagogy at the Institute of Human Sciences (ICH) of the Federal University of Uberlândia (UFU) held in the period 2016-2018. Our objective in this work is thus to identify the social representations of the children about the literacy process and the influence of these representations in the learning process of the child. Among the authors used in the theoretical reference of the research are: FERREIRO and TEBEROSKY (1999), SOARES (2003), MORTATTI (2000), SEBER (1997), among others that deal with children's literacy process. Among the questions that permeated this work are: What social representations do children have about literacy? How have they perceived this process? What, according to them, are the greatest difficulties during the literacy process? What do they think about writing? Do they like writing? If yes, in, what moments and situations? The nature of research is qualitative. In addition, we used the bibliographical research on the subject of literacy, as well as the realization of a Focus Group with children of the first year of primary education, of a state school of the public network located in the city of Ituiutaba / MG. We consider that the accomplishment of this work was essential to understand what the children of elementary school think about this process of appropriation of written language. We perform from the analysis carried out, that children consider this process as tiring, mechanical and quite complex. We hope to contribute in some way to the discussions about literacy at that time, from the "children's looks."