Literacy: the political scope of an issue

Authors

  • Anderson de Carvalho Pereira Universidade Estadual do Sudoeste da Bahia Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4025/actascieduc.v39i2.31486

Keywords:

reading and writing, discourse, public educational policies.

Abstract

 

Recently, a group of meanings about literacy has been consolidated. They refer to a dominant conception of an autonomous model of writing, connected to an individualist and cognitive background. Through a theoretical discussion based on the discursive perspective, which rescues the essential social and historical aspects of the issue, this article points that this consolidation aims at a political position. Therefore, this is about choosing a certain path and rejecting another. We question the ways this dominant meaning prevails in material discourses, such as schoolbooks produced by government programs, likeProletramento. Results report a ‘misunderstanding’ about literacy, which marks a way of signing in a discursive match of political value.

 

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Author Biography

  • Anderson de Carvalho Pereira, Universidade Estadual do Sudoeste da Bahia
    Doutor em Psicologia pela USP, Pof. Adjunto da UESB.

Published

2017-04-17

Issue

Section

History and Philosophy of Education

How to Cite

Pereira, A. de C. (2017). Literacy: the political scope of an issue. Acta Scientiarum. Education, 39(2), 176-184. https://doi.org/10.4025/actascieduc.v39i2.31486

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