A festa de São João em uma colcha de retalhos: memórias de uma comunidade rural

Abstract

The Master’s dissertation entitled A festa de São João em uma colcha de retalhos: memórias de uma comunidade rural developed in a public school located in the inland of Arapiraca, presents some reflections about a proposal of intervention in Portuguese language teaching. There are two research problems identified in this work: the pedagogical practices that valued just a type of Literacy as a default, focused on the metalinguistic approach and offensive valuations in circulation with respect to the rural and local culture that have been seeing through interviews in the students’ speech. Under such research problems, I have established as main goal to develop a didactic proposal to promote a rescue of history and memory of Baixa da Onça Village, in the context of June Festivals, in the light of New Literacies and also critical approach of literacy. The specific objectives can be indicated such as: develop linguistic and discursive skills for interviews practices in order to 9th grade students become better acquainted with their local stories; work collected oral narratives from their members as a memory rescue to be redeemed in the textual productions; work writing skills linked with audiovisual languages as expressive resources for creating hypermedia of digital narratives; realize, both the process of development of didactic sequence and in its final product, whether students’ reactions to the performed activities in the classroom would cause changes of offensive evaluative intonations when they acted in relation to their reality; go with how students would deal with technology in some proposed activities. The proposal should respond the following research questions: the language takes part of a privileged locus in construction operations, maintenance and segregation of social memory, how do reading and writing work in a multimodal and multicultural perspective could contribute to rescue students’ memory and history of a primary school located in Baixa da Onça Village, in the context of June Festivals? How technology can contribute in this process of developing the ability of written textual production? The actions of the didactic sequence involved: the preparation of interviews through Life Stories, collect the narratives; field class to stimulate the feeling of belonging of their reality, “stories” and possibilities of this village; and also the production of digital narratives linked with the work, writing and other linguistic modalities that involve a (re) construction of their memories. The analyses were based on a discursive conception and a qualitative ethnographic methodology. The result of the activity shows the change in refractions, also evaluative, in the relation student/ community as well as being a collaboration of the work with the multimodality in digital environment to written production.