COLETRAR: WHAT KIND OF TRAIN IS THIS? PATHS AND SHORTCUTS OF THE ABCS IN THE SUBJECT LINES OF TEACHING
Coletrar; Literature; literacy; literacy skills; teaching practice.
This thesis, of a cartographic and autobiographical nature, records the emergence and consolidation of the concept of "Coletrar," a neologism forged from the moment the teacher-researcher began her journey in literacy. Unlike traditional academic writing, this writing materializes in the form of a train journey where the departure ticket is the metaphor of the "train." Based on the Minas Gerais expression, the researcher is guided in this exercise, which arises from the emergence of the research question based on what this expression means in her homeland. As the cartographic method opens space for an inventive science, the routes of this journey are made from the songs of Milton Nascimento, a singer who, like the researcher, is also from Minas Gerais and whose trajectory has a strong connection with the train, combining diverse memories and making the railway lines a poetic metaphor. In addition, the researcher connects her reflections on the term "Coletrar" with the relationship established between Milton and the Clube da Esquina (Corner Club). The term "Coletrar" emerges in this research as a collective noun, a polysemous word that brings together literacies, body, language, literature, and experience, to reflect on teaching that is done through the enchantment of literature. Thus, this research traces the movements of the literacy teacher who reinvents herself amidst the challenges of teaching. In this sense, "Coletrar" is forged from a teaching practice that opens itself to a literary praxis that enables creative processes and recognizes that beyond literacy and reading comprehension, there is the possibility of making children artists of words. As research material, the students' written productions throughout the research were understood as territories from which surrounding forces helped consolidate the term "Coletrar." This thesis then demonstrates that literacy practice, when traversed by literary aesthetic experience, can transform into a powerful experience with language, endowing life with new meanings.