The purpose of this case study was to examine the effectiveness of a technique known as re-creation on student writing abilities in ENG 104 section 95 during the spring semester of 1992. Re-creation, already used almost exclusively in England and Australia, invites a writer to divulge his or her personal interpretation of a literary text by rewriting given aspects of it. In section 95, the instructor devoted the entire range of assignments to re-creative writing tasks, using four dramatic scripts and the motion pictures that had been adapted from them as literary texts. The instructor carefully developed re-creative writing assignments and a reasonable criteria with which to grade them. He closely monitored how the students adapted to re-creative writing, and discovered that four students exemplified the main different styles of writing that emerged from re-creation. The case study does indicate that all of the twenty-one students coulddo the work that re-creation involves; some experienced only minor successes with it, but other students, including some top achievers who would probably have done well in any writing class, found broad new avenues for creative expression of their personal responses to literature. / Department of English

The purpose of this creative project was to advance scholarship in areas suffering a lack of attention by Ball State University. Exploring a broader scope of Irish writing than most theses would cover, this project could easily be incorporated by other universities which share Ball State's departmental impotence with regard to Irish literary studies. I chose a time frame of two-hundred years to focus attention for this course.My directed readings from my project chairperson and my research at the Dublin Writers Museum led me to the design of this hypothetical course in contemporary Irish Literary Studies. I chose texts from 1801-Present which examine the varied cultural assumptions that various sects of the Irish citizenry hold, as depicted in their literature. What I found is that as time progresses, the emphasis toward violent preservation of cultural identity increases literally. This portfolio maps out those assumptions via Irish literature. / Department of English

Orientador: Benedito Antunes / Banca: Renata Junqueira de Souza / Banca: João Luis Cardoso Tápias Ceccantini / Resumo: Esta dissertação tem por objeto estudar a relação entre a formação de professores de português dos anos finais do Ensino Fundamental e práticas de ensino de literatura juvenil. Para tanto, optou-se por realizar uma pesquisa, inicialmente quantitativa, com 50 (100%) professores efetivos de português das Escolas Municipais de Ensino Fundamental da cidade de Itanhaém-SP. Procurou-se traçar um perfil médio dos docentes, considerando dados relativos à formação, adesão e/ou conhecimento de programas de incentivo à leitura, prática de ensino e referências às publicações literárias juvenis. A segunda etapa da pesquisa consistiu na apresentação e análise de 04 estudos de caso, com objetivo de destacar perfis de docentes leitores e suas práticas de ensino de literatura em escolas de 6º a 9º ano. Acrescenta-se à pesquisa, a análise de Programas de Incentivo à Leitura implementados no intervalo de 2009 a 2015 na rede de ensino itanhaense, sublinhando suas dimensões formativas, adesões ou reprovações. Desta forma, buscou-se investigar a influência da formação literária docente nas práticas de ensino de literatura nos anos finais do EF. Depreende-se, como resultado, que professores com relações mais estreitas com a leitura literária tendem a construir pontes entre esta e outras modalidades de cultura, ministrando aulas de português com vista à formação de leitores polivalentes, favorecendo a construção de uma cultura literária ao longo de toda Educação Básica. Na perspectiva teórica, funda... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: The present dissertation aims at studying the relationship between the cultural and academic background of Portuguese teachers during the final years of Elementary / Middle School and the teaching of youth literature. To that end, we decided to initially conduct quantitative research, with 50 (100%) of Portuguese permanent teachers in Municipal Elementary/ Middle Schools in the city of Itanhaém-SP. We have outlined an average profile of teachers, considering data related to their education, enrollment in or knowledge of reading incentive programs, teaching practices and references to youth literary publications. The second stage of the research consisted of the presentation and analysis of 4 case studies, whose objective was to highlight profiles of teachers who were avid readers, as well as their approaches to teaching literature in Elementary/ Middle schools (grades 6-9). Furthermore, we have analyzed the Reading Incentive Programs implemented during school break time (free period) from 2009 to 2016 in Itanhaem's schools, emphasizing their formative dimensions, engagement or disapproval. Thus, we investigated the influence of teachers' literary background over their literature teaching practices in the final years of Elementary School/Middle School. Based on the research, we have concluded that teachers who possess a closer connection to literary reading tend to build bridges between this and other cultural genres. They teach Portuguese classes with a view to the formation of polyvalent readers, favoring the construction of a literary culture throughout all Basic Education. From a theoretical perspective, the work is grounded on the Reception Aesthetics, notably on the conceptions disseminated by Umberto Eco, the postulates of Antonio Candido on the teaching of literature, and on the concepts of literary reading and reader-subject advocated... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Mestre

The first aim of teaching English literature has always been for the student to gain enjoyment from, and acquire skill in, reading. Further goals point to the affective development of pupils involving such qualities as critical thinking and expressing views, empathetic understanding of other people, moral awareness and increased self-knowledge and self-understanding. These are indeed laudable aims, but examiners have always had difficulties in examining them adequately to satisfy the critics. Teachers often doubt that they achieve such lofty aims. These very aims have the sceptics sneering at the discipline because such qualities cannot be measured and the pupil's worth for the workplace cannot be satisfactorily assessed. This has resulted in the merit of the study of literature being questioned and usually found wanting. Therefore, on the one hand, this research looks for a method of studying literature which will ensure that the study will be neccesary and desirable today and into the foreseeable future. On the other hand, the socio-political changes in South Africa, particularly since 1992, have offered a possible area of research to complement the first. During the past few years, South Africans have been forced to recognise the fact that a multitude of different races and people live and work together more closely in this country and yet they know nothing, or very little, of one another. Thus this research also investigates the addition of a cultural component to literature study to help young people gain empathetic understanding of different cultures and of their own cultures as well, to be able to live together in harmony. With this approach, pupils may conceivably be educated through literature, to become well-adjusted, critical, effective adults so that they may play their role as citizens and shapers of their increasingly complex, multi-cultural society. Because of the context of literature study, in which this personal growth takes place, the aims identified above may be measured and assessed to suit both the sceptics and the devotees of literature study.

I have in my possession a first edition, hard copy of Ruth Finnegan’s quintessential work, Oral Literature in Africa. It has a yellow cover, preserved by a plastic sheathe, it is a little frayed around the edges and has that old, musty library smell about it. I love and treasure this book. It is dedicated by Professor Finnegan ‘[t]o all my teachers’. Professor Finnegan is indeed one of my teachers. I properly met Ruth Finnegan at the second International Society for Oral Literature (ISOLA) conference in 1998, which I hosted at the University of Cape Town. She gave a keynote address which included reference to her seminal work and the future of oral literary studies. She has continually influenced our work as researchers following in her footsteps: Isidore Okpewho, Harold Scheub, Abiola Irele, Graham Furniss, Elizabeth Gunner, Karin Barber, Isobel Hofmeyr, John Foley, Olayibi Yai, Edgard Sienaert, Brian Street, Noverino Canonici, Mark Turin, Daniela Merolla, Jan Jansen, Jeff Opland, and many others; some younger, some older, some living, some departed, scholars influenced by this great and humble intellectual and her body of work.

Orientador: Maria das Graças Gomes Villa da Silva / Banca: Cleide Antônia Rapucci / Banca: Nelson Viana / Banca: Alcides Cardoso dos Santos / Banca: Maria Clara Bonetti Paro / Resumo: O objetivo desta tese é apresentar o diálogo entre vida e morte como estruturador dos romances Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse e Between the Acts de Virginia Woolf. Tal exposição será feita a partir do estudo da voz narrativa, tempo e espaço, destacando a participação da intertextualidade na configuração das instâncias, e terá como foco as guerras e seus desdobramentos, que estão presentes nas três referidas obras - e quiçá em praticamente toda a produção woolfiana. Respectivamente, os romances abrangem o pós-Primeira Guerra; um período de dez anos, no qual ocorre o conflito; e, por fim, o momento de eminência da Segunda Guerra Mundial. As análises serão empreendidas pelo viés psicanalítico, compreendendo, especialmente, as teorias freudianas sobre as pulsões, a memória, o luto e o trauma, além dos trabalhos de estudiosos que realizaram releituras do legado do psicanalista. Assim, nesta pesquisa, o foco é investigar como o conflito entre Eros e Thanatos, pulsão de vida e pulsão de morte, mostra-se nas narrativas de diversas maneiras, atuando constantemente e em conjunto nas existências das personagens, cujas feridas de guerra se revelam no texto por meio de lembranças e do não dito, isto é, daquilo que, por algum motivo, habita o inconsciente / Abstract: The aim of this Dissertation is to present the dialogue between life and death as a structuring resource of Virginia Woolf's novels Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse and Between the Acts. This exposition will be made through the study of the narrative voice, of time and of space, emphasising the role of intertextuality in the configuration of the narrative instances. The focus is on the war and its unfoldings, present in the three works - and perhaps in almost all Woolf's production. Respectively, the novels comprehend the aftermath of the First World War; the period of ten years within which the conflict happens; and, at last, the eminence of the Second World War. The analysis will be developed under the psychoanalitical bias, comprising, especially, the Freudian theories about the drives, memory, mourning and the trauma, besides the rereadings of the psychoanalist's legacy. Thus, in this research, the focus is to investigate how the conflict between Eros e Thanatos, life drive and death drive, unveils itself through the narrative in several ways. The drives act constantly and jointly in the life of the characters, whose war injuries appear on the text by means of remembrances and of what is not stated, that is, of elements which inhabit the unconscious / Doutor

Made available in DSpace on 2015-04-09T12:28:11Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2014-12-10Bitstream added on 2015-04-09T12:48:02Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 000813473.pdf: 1855155 bytes, checksum: a282984014da8b6b52b099bbfd99a52d (MD5) / Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / Nesta tese, apresentam-se resultados de pesquisa de Doutorado em Educação vinculada ao Grupo de Pesquisa e ao Projeto Integrado de Pesquisa “História do Ensino de Língua e Literatura no Brasil”, coordenados por Maria do Rosário Longo Mortatti. Com o objetivo de contribuir para a compreensão da história do ensino da literatura infantil e sua relação com questões até então não exploradas sobre a história da formação de professores, focalizaram-se aspectos relacionados ao “ensinar a ensinar” literatura infantil nos cursos de formação de professores primários no estado de São Paulo, no período compreendido entre 1947 e 2003, datas, respectivamente, da primeira e da última vez em que se constatou a presença da matéria/disciplina “Literatura infantil” nos programas de ensino dos cursos de formação de professores primários desse estado. Mediante abordagem histórica, centrada em pesquisa documental e bibliográfica, desenvolvida por meio da utilização dos procedimentos de localização, recuperação, reunião, seleção e ordenação de fontes documentais e leitura de bibliografia especializada, reuniram-se referências de diferentes tipos de textos relacionados ao ensino da literatura infantil no estado de São Paulo. Dentre os textos localizados, foram selecionados para análise da configuração textual os manuais de ensino, por serem os mais representativos em relação aos objetivos da pesquisa. Essa análise possibilitou compreender que: a institucionlaização do ensino da literatura infantil na formação de professores esteve diretamente relacionada à construção de um saber escolar sobre esse gênero literário que, na ausência de um saber teórico ou saber de referência sobre o assunto, passou a “funcionar” como uma teorização. Esse saber escolar, formulado e disseminado no interior do ensino da literatura infantil na formação de professores, encontrou sua sustentação... / In this dissertation, we present results of a doctoral study in Education in the scope of the Research Group and the Integrated Research Project “History of Teaching Language and Literature in Brazil”, coordinated by Maria do Rosário Long Mortatti. Aiming to contribute to the understanding of the history of teaching children’s literature and its relation to the history of teacher education, we focus on some aspects related to “teaching to teach” children’s literature on teacher education courses for primary school in São Paulo State. The period is delimited between 1947 and 2003, respectively the first and last years in which we found the presence of “Children’s Literature” as a school subject in the teaching programs of teacher education courses. Through historical approach, focusing on documentary and bibliographical research and using procedures of locating, recovering, assembling, selecting, ordering documentary sources and reading specialized bibliography, we gathered references of different types of texts related to teaching children’s literature in São Paulo State. Among the texts that we found, we selected teaching manuals for the analysis of textual configuration, for being the most representative in relation to the research objectives. This analysis enabled us to understand that: the inclusion of teaching children’s literature in teacher education has been directly related to the construction of a school knowledge about this literary genre that, in the absence of a theoretical or reference knowledge on the subject, proceeded to “work” as a theorization. This school knowledge, formulated and disseminated within teaching children’s literature in teacher education, has been theoretically supported by concepts of Psychology. This has directly contributed to the formation of a concept of children’s literature related to children’s mental development. Finally, with the strength of an ...

Made available in DSpace on 2015-03-03T11:52:32Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2014-08-12Bitstream added on 2015-03-03T12:06:31Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 000809496.pdf: 1480144 bytes, checksum: cc28cc98a1b1ea55771102c0bb9c0ed1 (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / Essa dissertação de mestrado situa-se no âmbito dos fundamentos da educação e, para embasar seus argumentos, dirige-se ao estudo teórico acerca do ensino de literatura como possibilidade de humanização do indivíduo, do conceito de arte, literatura e catarse. É realizada a retomada histórica do termo catarse desde Aristóteles para, mais adiante, analisá-lo com maior rigor nas obras do filósofo húngaro, George Lukács, e do educador brasileiro, Dermeval Saviani. Com base nesses estudos, esse trabalho discute a catarse como uma categoria estética e ética por compreender que o processo catártico pode, por meio da arte, suscitar no indivíduo a vivência de determinadas emoções e pode também, seja pela arte ou pela ciência, despertar, nele, um novo posicionamento intelectual capaz de lhe reclamar ações constantemente pautadas pela ética. A catarse, dessa maneira, é vista como parte de um processo de humanização do indivíduo. Defende-se que a literatura como forma de expressão artística articulada aos grandes problemas do desenvolvimento da humanidade pode exercer um papel relevante na formação humana, pois pode acarretar a catarse no leitor e assim contribuir para o seu processo de humanização. É imprescindível que o sujeito seja orientado quanto à recepção estética e qualidade das obras literárias e, então, reflete-se sobre o ensino de literatura eficaz a essa orientação e devidamente comprometido com a especificidade da escola: a transmissão do conhecimento mais elaborado. Essa pesquisa compreende o ensino de literatura com base nos pressupostos da Pedagogia Histórico-Crítica, portanto, como parte do processo de socialização do saber sistematizado, como transmissão e recriação de valores e conhecimentos da sociedade, enfim, como trabalho educativo que contribui para a formação intelectual e humanística dos indivíduos / This master dissertation research is situated within the framework of foundations of education and to support their arguments, addresses the theoretical study about the teaching of literature as a possibility for humanization of the individual, the concept of the art, literature and catharsis. The historic resumption of catharsis term since Aristotle is performed to later review it more thoroughly in the works of the hungarian philosopher, George Lukács, and of the brazilian educator, Dermeval Saviani. Based on such studies, this paper discusses the catharsis as an aesthetic and ethical category, in that it comprises that the cathartic process can, through art, arouse in the individual the experience of certain emotions and can also, through art or science, stimulate, in the same, a new intellectual position capable of require you actions constantly guided by ethics. Catharsis, that way, is seen as part of a process of humanization of the individual. It is argued that the good literature, artistic expression articulated to the great problems of development of humanity, can exercise an important role in the human formmation because it can cause the catharsis in the reader and thus contribute to the process of their humanization. The individual should be instructed as to the aesthetic reception and the quality of the literary works and then is discussed the effective teaching of literature to this guidance and duly committed to the specificity of the school: the transmission of more elaborate knowledge. This research comprises the teaching of literature based on the assumptions of Pedagogy Historical-Critical, therefore, as part of the socialization process of systematized knowledge, as transmission and recreation of values and knowledge of the society, in short, as an educational work that contributes to the intellectual formation and humanistic of the individuals

Esta dissertação investiga a evolução do pensamento educacional, buscando aproximações com as rupturas paradigmáticas da ciência, para verificar como esses processos se intercruzam no ensino de Literatura. A pesquisa pauta-se na exploração bibliográfica. Os paradigmas da ciência e suas implicações no processo educativo fundamentam-se em referenciais teóricos de Aranha (2006), Behrens (1999), Bertalanffy (1973), Capra (1996), Moraes (2002), Morin (2000, 2002, 2004) e Santos (1988). No que se refere ao ensino Literatura, busca-se suporte teórico em Candido (2011), Coelho (1980,2000), Cosson (2006), Pinto (2014), Zilberman (1990, 2005) e Zinani e Santos (2002, 2004). A imersão teórica, de um lado, evidencia que o ensino de Literatura centrado no viés cronológico dos períodos literários, no uso do texto para transmissão de valores ou para o ensino da gramática da língua relaciona-se à concepção de ciência advinda do paradigma tradicional, dominante. De outro, práticas leitoras que concebem a literariedade dos textos, a atribuição de sentidos a partir das vivências do estudante e das condições oferecidas pelo professor mediador trazem as marcas do modelo científico emergente, do pensamento sistêmico na educação. O resgate temporal realizado sobre a presença da Literatura desde os primórdios da constituição da pátria brasileira e as ações necessárias para a escolarização do literário demonstram como o ensino de Literatura tem associação com o momento histórico vivido pela nação e com o padrão científico de pensamento adotado na época. A pesquisa sinaliza que o ensino de Literatura, pelo viés da religação dos saberes, pode ser o fio condutor para as mudanças que se fazem necessárias ao processo educativo contemporâneo e a orientação metodológica de Cosson (2006) para a promoção do letramento literário é uma possibilidade de ensino sob a perspectiva sistêmica. Através das relações estabelecidas entre a evolução do pensamento educacional e as rupturas paradigmáticas da ciência sugere-se que o ensino de Literatura seja orientado para a formação do leitor, centrado no processo de humanização, nas significações que o aluno constrói para suas leituras e nas interações estabelecidas com a realidade. A investigação também apresenta subsídios teóricos para o ensino de Literatura, no Ensino Médio, consoante com os pressupostos contemporâneos de educação e de ciência, a partir da perspectiva do letramento literário. / Submitted by Ana Guimarães Pereira (agpereir@ucs.br) on 2016-11-22T12:31:25Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao Mariele Gabrielli.pdf: 1744159 bytes, checksum: 916252eb71278e050c70d9e98deda59c (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-11-22T12:31:25Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao Mariele Gabrielli.pdf: 1744159 bytes, checksum: 916252eb71278e050c70d9e98deda59c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-11-22 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior, CAPES. / This dissertation investigates the development of educational thinking, seeking approaches with the science’s paradigmatic ruptures, to verify how these processes intersect in teaching Literature. The research is based in the bibliographic exploration. The paradigms of science and its implications in the educational process are based in theoretical frameworks from Aranha (2006), Behrens (1999), Bertalanffy (1973), Capra (1996), Moraes (2002), Morin (2000, 2002, 2004) and Santos (1988). About the teaching of Literature the theoretical support is based in Candido (2011), Coelho (1980, 2000), Cosson (2006), Pinto (2014), Zilberman (1990, 2005) and Zinani and Santos (2002, 2004). The theoretical immersion, on one hand, shows that the Literature teaching centered in chronological base of literary periods, the use of text for transmission of values or the language of grammar teaching, it relates to the design of science arising from the traditional, dominant paradigm. On the other hand, reading practices that conceive literariness of texts, the significations from de students’ experiences and the conditions offered by the mediator teacher, it has the marks of emerging scientific model, the systemic thinking in education. The temporal redemption about the presence of Literature since the beginning of the constitution of the Brazilian nation and the necessary actions for the literary schooling demonstrate how the teaching of Literature is associated with the historical moment lived by the nation and the scientific thinking adopted at the time. The research indicates that the teaching of Literature, by reconnection of knowledge, may be the indicator of the changes that are necessary to the contemporary educational process and Cosson (2006) methodological guidance for the promotion of literary literacy is a possibility of teaching in the systemic perspective. Through the relationships established between the evolution of educational thinking and the science’s paradigmatic ruptures, it is suggested that the teaching of Literature is directed to the reader formation, centered on the humanization process, the significations that the student prepares for his readings and interactions established with reality. The research also provides theoretical support for the teaching of Literature, in High School, according to contemporary assumptions of education and science, from the perspective of literary literacy.

Acompanha: Da crueldade à duplicidade da alma humana: sequência expandida a partir de clássicos do terror / Segundo os documentos oficiais que norteiam as práticas pedagógicas na rede básica, o ensino da literatura deve ser significativo e potencializar o uso da leitura e da escrita, tornando a experiência literária, um aprendizado que possibilita a reflexão, a crítica e o crescimento intelectual, que resultam da experiência estética. Frente a este pressuposto, o presente trabalho objetiva ressaltar a importância da leitura de obras clássicas, destacando sua imprescindibilidade enquanto patrimônio cultural que deve integrar o repertório dos aprendizes; destacar a imortalidade das obras de Machado de Assis e Stevenson, bem como defender a importância de privilegiar a abordagem sincrônica do texto literário e não apenas a dimensão cronológica, a qual limita o texto a uma visão meramente historiográfica. Portanto, foi elaborada uma proposta didática para o segundo ano do Ensino Médio, a qual tem como textos-base o conto machadiano “A causa secreta” (1886) e o romance O médico e o monstro (1886), de Robert Louis Stevenson, clássicos do terror. Como embasamento teórico foram utilizados os conceitos de Rildo Cosson, o qual discute o ensino de literatura, a importância da seleção de textos e propõe duas sequências: a básica e a expandida; Italo Calvino, que defende a imortalidade das obras clássicas; Antonio Candido, que salienta o papel humanizador da literatura como direito inalienável e incompressível, como também, Leyla Perrone-Moisés, para a qual, o cânone constitui um bem inigualável, que deve ser oportunizado aos educandos, independente da classe social ou dos desafios que possam surgir. Como metodologia, foi desenvolvida uma pesquisa-ação, de caráter qualitativo e bibliográfico. Por fim, as ações desenvolvidas mostram que o ensino de literatura deve abranger as obras clássicas e que a sequência expandida representa uma fecunda possibilidade para tornar o cânone uma realidade prática e não apenas uma recomendação que não se efetiva, de fato, nas aulas de Português. / According to the official documents that guide the pedagogical practices in the basic school system, the teaching of literature must be meaningful and enhance the use of reading and writing, making the literary experience a learning which enables reflection, critical and intellectual growth, that result from aesthetic experience. Given this assumption, the present study aims to highlight the importance of reading classical opus, showing its indispensability as a cultural heritage that must integrate the repertoire of learners; emphasize the immortality of Machado de Assis’s and Stevenson’s works, defending the importance to previlege the synchronic approach of the literary text and not only the chronological dimension, which limits the text to a merely historiographical vision. Therefore, a didactic proposal has been prepared for the second year of high school, which is based on Machado's tale The Secret Cause (1886) and the novel Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886) by Robert Louis Stevenson, classics horror. As theoretical base the concepts of Rildo Cosson were used, which discuss the teaching of literature, the importance of selecting texts and his proposed sequences: the basic and the expanded; Italo Calvino, who defends the immortality of classical works; Antonio Candido, who emphasizes the humanizing role of literature as inalienable and incompressible rights, as well as Leyla Perrone-Moisés, for her, the canon is unparalleled well, what should be offered to students, regardless of social class or challenges that could arise in the reading route. As methodology, an action research of qualitative and bibliographical nature was developed. Finally, the taken actions show that the teaching of literature should cover the classics, and that the expanded sequence represents an opportunity to make the canon a practical reality and not just a recommendation that is not effective, in fact, in the Portuguese lessons.