Formação de Professores e de Leitores: Considerações a Partir de Dizeres de Alunos

Abstract

In this paper we discuss the reading and writing skills and the need for them to occupy a place within the teacher training courses consistent with their importance. Reading and writing must be pondered within the teacher training courses, because these students will be developing readers and writers, so they are required to be readers and writers themselves. Therefore, we will focus on some aspects of a survey conducted within teacher training courses at a university in the North of Parana, entitled Circulating ideas about reading and writing: meanings. We assume a socio-historical and critical pedagogical approach, since we understand that human beings should be educated and educate themselves to live in society, and that must be done in a critical and responsible way, aiming at interfering in one’s own life and environment in order to expand one’s humanization and contribute to the humanization of others. We show that a significant number of teachers were trained in a context prior to the technological advances and its incorporation in schools. However, in order to do their work, they are required to know and use such technology, since students already use it in their everyday lives and school and universities cannot remain isolated, far from the social demands