Literature teaching tendencies: the textbook in High School

• Grant number: 17/10746-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: March 01, 2018
• End date: December 31, 2019
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Education - Specific topics in Education
• Principal Investigator: Sérgio Fabiano Annibal
• Grantee: Giovana Tavernari Payão
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências e Letras (FCL-ASSIS). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Assis. Assis , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The purpose of this Scientific Initiation consists in an investigation about the literary representations, present in the textbooks of the collections Novas Palavras and Português: Linguagens, used in the first grade of High School in public schools of Assis/Sp. The main objective of this research is analyzing the collections Novas Palavras and Português: Linguagens in High School, with the intention of showing, comprehending and analyzing how the literary content is exposed in those books as well as the pedagogical tendency they represent. The specific objectives are: a. To catalog the authors and texts of the collection; b. To organize and describe the literary representations; c. To situate the tendencies (pedagogical and literary) which sustains the literary content; d. To promote the analysis of these literary representations. It is expected, as a result of this investigation, the contribution in the debates about Literature teaching and critical analysis of textbooks.