Emerald dawn in the formation of young readers: the experience
aesthetic experience and social experience.
Literature; Reader training; Pleasure; Ferréz; Reframing
The school is the propitious environment for the mediation of all systematized and scientific
knowledge; but it also has the function of enabling the meeting of these understandings with the
experiences previously acquired by the students. Thus, the classroom becomes the place where
listening to these experiences is opened, enabling students to debate the most varied subjects,
especially those dealing with ethical and moral values, which are fundamental to the formation of
individuals more questioning and participatory. Through the aesthetic and enunciative reception of
literary works, we proposed that our students delve into the world full of fantasy and metaphors,
bringing meanings that confront them as unique individuals, full of feelings and emotions. In
addition, we gave importance to the dialogue built from reading and shared understanding,
spreading respect and tolerance to others. This dissertation is part of the research line Reading and
textual production: social diversity and teaching practices of the Professional Master's Program in
Letters (Profletras), developed with students from the 8th grade of the public school in Nova
Iguaçu-RJ. Our main goal is to arouse the taste for reading by simple taste and pleasure. Thus, we
are not concerned with a systematic teaching of the text, on the contrary, we explore the subjectivity
and real experiences of the reader, proposing activities that privileged the emotion and pleasure
that emanates from the art of writing. Like Michèle Petit, we believe that literature can arouse
memories and feelings that can resignify the lives of those who take it. Also, we base our mediation
on various scholars, such as Todorov (2009) by saying that literature is thought and knowledge of
the psychic and social world in which we live; Bosi (2002) who says that the fiction of literary
texts can enable the reader to enter into very striking subjects to understand, question and modify
the society that surrounds him and thus, dialogues with Candido (2012), stating that the literature
it is a living system of works, acting upon each other and upon the readers, and it lives only to the
extent that they live it, deciphering it, accepting it, deforming it. Research from other leading
theorists has also supported us, such as Cecilia Bajour, Teresa Colomer, Regina Zilberman, and
others. We believe in the importance of listening to the mediator and his attention to the speech of
the students at each meeting. Therefore, the activities took place by reading various literary texts,
without the concern to exalt any genre or its characteristics. The initial experience was with the
children's book Amanhecer Esmeralda (FERRÉZ, 2014), from which the other mediations were
planned, which were transformed according to the need and the progress of the class.