REPRESENTAÇÕES SOCIAIS DE ESTUDANTES DO NONO ANO DO ENSINO FUNDAMENTAL SOBRE LEITURA E ESCRITA

Abstract

The present research is based on Serge Moscovici's Theory of Social Representations (TSR) and presents a quantiqualitative approach in the collection and analysis of the social representations (SR) of the subjects researched on the systematic teaching of our mother tongue worked in Basic Education. For this, we aimed to investigate the social representations of ninth grade students about the teaching and learning of reading and writing. Thirty-seven (37) students from two state public schools, located in a municipality in the northern region of the state of Paraná, participated inthe research, being 23 (twenty-three) students from Central School 1 (EC1) and 14 (fourteen) from Peripheral School 1 (EP1). The respondents answered a questionnaire with 18 (eighteen) questions, 9 (nine) referring to reading and 9 (nine) about writing. For the presentation of the collected SR, we elaborated two charts in which we synthesized the research statistical data; the first presents the aspects related to the students reading practices, the second, in turn, shows the reading practices. Moreover, according to the Moscovici assumptions we qualitatively discuss the SR obtained by the research. Overall, the SR of the respondent’s report that most read and write poorly, which confirms the results of external evaluations, as well as complaints from teachers, parents, and other school professionals about poor brazilian students achievement.