Letramento no museu: agência e desenvolvimento social

Museums are non-formal educational spaces that provide the organization of activities and initiatives that encompass many areas of knowledge since interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity are inherent characteristics of theses places and, at the same time, traverses its entire dynamics of working and routines. In sight of the understanding that museums may be perceived through different viewpoints and approaches, this study is developed having as its scenery a museum institution located in the countryside of the state of Ceará. The research is based on the field of Applied Linguistics, a field that understands itself as transdiciplinar and open to dialogues with other areas and fileds of knowledge. The main goal of this research is to comprehend how the aforementioned museum acts as a literacy catalytic agent. In the theoretical scope, the study is based on the postulations of the Literacy Studies (STREET, 1984; BARTON e HAMILTON, 1993, 1998; KLEIMAN, 1995; 2001; OLIVEIRA, 2008; PAZ, 2008), electing as categories of analysis the elements: participants, dominance, artefacts and activities as established by Hamilton (2000); in the genre social approach inspired by New Rhetoric (BAZERMAN, 2005, 2006; MILLER, 1984, 2009); in New Museology (CHAGAS, 1994; MOUTINHO, 2014; GABRIELE, 2014; TOLENTINO, 2016). Regarding methodology, the research follows a qualitative approach (BOGDAN; BILKLEN, 1994; MASON,1998) of interpretative basis (MOITA LOPES, 2006), assuming an ethnographic perspective. The corpus of the research comprises 8 different events devoted to literacy observed at the museum, field observation and notes, questionnaries answered by 5 professionals from the museum (staff members and directors), a Conversation Circle with 7th grade visiting students. The relevance of this research resides in three aspects: a) in the contributions it will provide to Literacy Studies, especially in thinking the museum as a literacy catalytic agent; b) in the colaboration for the development of works of Applied Linguistics; c) ...