No entender do sociólogo francês Pierre Bourdieu, disposições culturais vêm a ser um conjunto de regras, incorporadas de maneira inconsciente pelos indivíduos, as quais perpassam os domínios éticos, estéticos, cognitivos e físicos. Como exemplo, podem ser citadas as disposições linguísticas, sexuais, religiosas e estéticas, que contém a nossa visão de mundo e o nosso posicionamento nele. As disposições produzem nossa visão de mundo e condicionam nossas tomadas de posição. Tais disposições são adquiridas através das experiências de vida e em instituições constituídas em nossa sociedade como a família e a escola. Embora não haja escritos específicos de Bourdieu com relação à Educação de Jovens e Adultos (EJA), acreditamos que as disposições culturais incorporadas acabam por ser fundamentais para influenciar a exclusão de um grande contingente de estudantes dos bancos escolares quando ainda são crianças, bem como consolidar trajetórias sociais desprovidas de escolaridade institucionalizada. Na presente dissertação procura-se investigar os condicionantes que determinaram o fracasso escolar e, supostamente, social, de um conjunto de jovens e adultos inseridos em salas de alfabetização das escolas municipais de Piracicaba, estado de São Paulo. Observa-se que a grande maioria dos pesquisados é proveniente de zonas rurais de distintos municípios da região e que mantinham situações de existência divergentes da ideologia urbana propagada nas escolas formais de ensino fundamental em meados da segunda metade do século XX. Entendemos ser relevante o estudo do tema proposto, uma vez que a EJA surge em decorrência de um sistema social e escolar excludente que, através de sua ação pedagógica, modificou a trajetória de milhares de pessoas que buscam em tempos atuais o que não conseguiram na infância. Contudo, a escolarização é apenas uma das relações sociais das quais essas pessoas estão excluídas. Há o aprofundamento de uma exclusão marcada pela desigualdade. Por outro lado, a escola também pode ser considerada espaço de contradição e de superação das desigualdades sociais. Assim, a EJA pode representar subversão à lógica da exclusão, uma vez que historicamente a despossessão do capital escolar é presente nessas pessoas, e a procura pela escolarização na fase adulta pode representar uma forma de resistência. / To the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, cultural disposition is a group of rules, unconsciously incorporated by people, which pervades ethical dominion, aesthetic, cognitive and physical. As example, we can mention the linguistic dominion, sexual, religious and aesthetic, which contains our world view and our position in it. The dispositions produce our world view and condition our stance. Those dispositions are acquired through life experiences and in institutions as family and school. Although there isn´t specific Bourdieu literature related to Adult and Youth Education (AYE), we believe that incorporated cultural dispositions end up being essential to exclude a large students contingent from the school desks when they are still children, as well as consolidate social trajectory devoid of institutionalized schooling. In the present dissertation it´s tried to investigate the constraints that determine the school failure and, supposedly, social failure, of a group of young and adults inserted in literacy classrooms from Piracicaba´s municipal schools, São Paulo state. It´s observed that a big part of the individuals researched comes from rural zones of the region distinct municipalities and they were in existing situations different from the urban ideology propagated in the formal elementary schools during the midyears of the XX century´s second half. The study of the proposed theme is relevant because AYE arises from an excluding social and school system that, through its pedagogical action, changed the trajectory of thousands of people that seek, nowadays, what they didn´t achieve in their childhood. However, the schooling is only one of the social relations which those people are excluded from. There is a deepening of an exclusion marked by the inequality. On the other hand, the school can also be considered a place for contradiction and social inequalities overcoming. Thus, the adult and youth education can represent subversion of the exclusion logic, since historically the dispossession of the school capital is present in these people, and the search for schooling in the adult phase can represent a resistance form.

<p>Drawing on broader discussions that attempt to envision new ways of negotiating identity, nationalism and race in a post-colonial, post-apartheid South Africa, this thesis examines how whiteness is constructed and negotiated within the framework of literary-journalistic narratives. It is significant that so many established journalists have chosen a literary format, in which they use the structure, conventions, form and style of the novel, while clearly foregrounding their journalistic priorities, to re-imagine possibilities for narratives of identity and belonging for white South Africans. I argue that by working at the interstice of literature and journalism, writers are able to open new rhetorical spaces in which white South African identity can be interrogated.</p> <p><br /> This thesis examines the literary narratives of Rian Malan (My Traitor&rsquo / s Heart, 1991), Antjie Krog (Country of My Skull, 1998, and Begging to be Black, 2009), Kevin Bloom (Ways of Staying, 2009) and Jonny Steinberg (Midlands, 2002). These writers all seem to grapple with the recurring themes of &lsquo / history&rsquo / , &lsquo / narrative&rsquo / and &lsquo / identity&rsquo / , and in exploring the narratives of their personal and national history, they attempt to make sense of their current situation. The texts that this thesis examines exhibit an acute awareness of the necessity of bringing whiteness into conversation with &lsquo / other&rsquo / identities, and thus I explore both the ways in which that is attempted and the degree to which the texts succeed, in their respective projects. I also examine what literary genres offer these journalists in their engagement with issues of whiteness and white identity that conventional forms of journalism do not. These writers are challenging the conventions of genre &ndash / both literary and journalistic &ndash / during a period of social and political flux, and I argue that in attempting to limn new narrative forms, they are in fact outlining new possibilities for white identities and ways of belonging and speaking. However, a close reading of these literary-journalistic narratives reveals whiteness in post-apartheid South African to be a multifaceted and often contradictory construct and position. Despite the lingering privilege and structural advantage associated with whiteness, South African whiteness appears strongly characterised by a deep-seated anxiety that stems from a perpetual sense of &lsquo / un-belonging&rsquo / . However, while white skin remains a significant marker of identity, there does appear to be the possibility of moving beyond whiteness into positions of hybridity which offer interesting potential for &lsquo / becoming-other&rsquo / .</p>

<p>Drawing on broader discussions that attempt to envision new ways of negotiating identity, nationalism and race in a post-colonial, post-apartheid South Africa, this thesis examines how whiteness is constructed and negotiated within the framework of literary-journalistic narratives. It is significant that so many established journalists have chosen a literary format, in which they use the structure, conventions, form and style of the novel, while clearly foregrounding their journalistic priorities, to re-imagine possibilities for narratives of identity and belonging for white South Africans. I argue that by working at the interstice of literature and journalism, writers are able to open new rhetorical spaces in which white South African identity can be interrogated.</p> <p><br /> This thesis examines the literary narratives of Rian Malan (My Traitor&rsquo / s Heart, 1991), Antjie Krog (Country of My Skull, 1998, and Begging to be Black, 2009), Kevin Bloom (Ways of Staying, 2009) and Jonny Steinberg (Midlands, 2002). These writers all seem to grapple with the recurring themes of &lsquo / history&rsquo / , &lsquo / narrative&rsquo / and &lsquo / identity&rsquo / , and in exploring the narratives of their personal and national history, they attempt to make sense of their current situation. The texts that this thesis examines exhibit an acute awareness of the necessity of bringing whiteness into conversation with &lsquo / other&rsquo / identities, and thus I explore both the ways in which that is attempted and the degree to which the texts succeed, in their respective projects. I also examine what literary genres offer these journalists in their engagement with issues of whiteness and white identity that conventional forms of journalism do not. These writers are challenging the conventions of genre &ndash / both literary and journalistic &ndash / during a period of social and political flux, and I argue that in attempting to limn new narrative forms, they are in fact outlining new possibilities for white identities and ways of belonging and speaking. However, a close reading of these literary-journalistic narratives reveals whiteness in post-apartheid South African to be a multifaceted and often contradictory construct and position. Despite the lingering privilege and structural advantage associated with whiteness, South African whiteness appears strongly characterised by a deep-seated anxiety that stems from a perpetual sense of &lsquo / un-belonging&rsquo / . However, while white skin remains a significant marker of identity, there does appear to be the possibility of moving beyond whiteness into positions of hybridity which offer interesting potential for &lsquo / becoming-other&rsquo / .</p>

The Viking Age rune-carvers and their readers used runes as a semiotic resource to convey and structure the messages on rune-stones. An analysis of the ways in which this resource is used together with other resources gives us a deeper insight into the relationship between writers and readers and into the written culture in which the rune-stones were produced. The present study treats runic carvings as multimodal texts in which different semiotic modes produce meaning by visual and verbal means. The roles played by runes in such texts are studied from three different perspectives. The empirical study in chapter 3 investigates how the verbal messages of the inscriptions interrelate with ornamental compositions. The most important convention found is that runic inscriptions usually start in the lower left part of the ornamental band in which they are inscribed. A second result is that there is a certain correlation between the visual and syntactic structure of runic texts. In chapter 4, Södermanlandic inscriptions employing more than one writing system are investigated. These carvings can be tied to a context of high social ambition in which at least two different, socially stratified discourses are expressed by means of the runes as a visual semiotic mode. Chapter 5 is devoted to non-lexical inscriptions, showing that such carvings are indeed runic texts despite their lack of verbal message. Different types of readers can use runic resources in different ways. Firstly, runes carry meaning independent of any verbal message, giving them significance even to illiterate readers. Secondly, literate readers can appreciate certain conventions of runic composition and, thirdly, one and the same runic text can be part of different discourses and hence be aimed at different kinds of readers. / <p>Disputationen sker på norska och svenska</p>

Abstract A housing society’s annual report is referred as the main document in which buyers can obtain information about the housing society’s financial position. However, previous research shows that households find it difficult to understand the financial information in an annual report.  In addition, the investigation on strengthened consumer protection in the cooperative flat market (SOU 2017:31) shows that buyer’s in Sweden have insufficient ability to understand the risks combined with a tenant-owner acquisition, which could have far-reaching consequences. One reason why households do not understand the annual report can be that the report does not contain sufficient descriptive information, which can demonstrate a prevailing information gap between the producer of information and its receivers. The purpose of this study is to create an adjusted annual report based on information from interviews with interest organizations for housing societies, and then examine whether a buyer’s financial understanding can be increased based on the expanded information in the adjusted management report.  In this study, qualitative interviews with individuals at different interest organizations to housing societies have been conducted, which has resulted in relevant information being added in a housing society’s management report, hoping to make the annual report more understandable. The adjusted annual report has then been tested in a quasi-experiment. In the experiment, participants in an experimental group received the adjusted annual report while participants in a control group received the original un-adjusted annual report. The participants in respective group then responded to questions about which extent they considered to understand the information in specific annual report. The results for each group have then been analyzed to measure and compare the understanding between both groups to see if there is a connection between extended information and increased understanding in an annual report. The result of the completed experiment showed that the average understanding of the annual report’s content was 81 percent higher in the experimental group compared to the control group. The conclusion is, therefore, that there is a connection between expanded information and increased understanding of the information in the adjusted annual report for the participants in the experiment. / Sammanfattning En bostadsrättsförenings årsredovisning ses som det huvudsakliga dokument där bostadsrättsköpare kan erhålla information om föreningens finansiella ställning. Ändå uppvisar tidigare forskning att hushåll har svårt att förstå den finansiella informationen i en årsredovisning. Dessutom påvisar utredningen om stärkt konsumentskydd på bostadsrättsmarknaden (SOU 2017:31) att bostadsrättsköpare i Sverige har en bristande förmåga att förstå de risker som ett bostadsrättsförvärv medför, något som kan få långt gående konsekvenser. En av anledningarna till att hushåll inte förstår årsredovisningen kan vara att rapporten inte innehåller tillräckligt med beskrivande information, vilket kan påvisa ett rådande informationsgap mellan utgivaren av information och användaren. Syftet med studien är att skapa en justerad årsredovisning utifrån information som intervjuer med individer hos bostadsrättsmarknadens intresseorganisationer genererat, för att sedan pröva om det går att öka en bostadsrättsköpares finansiella förståelse utifrån den utökade informationen i den justerade förvaltningsberättelsen. I denna studie har kvalitativa intervjuer genomförts med individer hos intresseorganisationer till bostadsrättsföreningar vilket har resulterat i att relevant information utökats i bostadsrättsförenings förvaltningsberättelse i hopp om att göra årsredovisningen mer förståelig. Den justerade årsredovisningen har därefter prövats i ett kvasi-experiment. I experimentet fick deltagarna i en experimentgrupp ta del av den justerade årsredovisningen medan kontrollgruppen fick ta del av den ojusterade årsredovisningen. Därefter svarade deltagarna på frågor om i vilken grad de ansåg sig förstå informationen i specifik årsredovisning. Resultatet för respektive grupp har sedan analyserats för att mäta och jämföra förståelsen mellan de båda grupperna för att se om det finns ett samband mellan utökad information och ökad förståelse i en årsredovisning. Resultatet av det genomförda experimentet visade att den genomsnittliga förståelsen av årsredovisningens innehåll var 81 procent högre hos experimentgruppen jämfört med kontrollgruppen. Slutsatsen är därmed att det finns ett samband mellan utökad information och ökad förståelse av informationen i den justerade årsredovisningen för experimentets deltagare.

The research study was conducted in Mazakhele, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. The aim of the study was to understand the impact of unemployment on the inhabitants of Mazakhele. The primary question of this study was: How does unemployment affect the jobless in Mazakhele? The sample consisted of five females and five males aged between 25 to 55 years who were unemployed. Purposive sampling was used. In-depth interviews were used to collect the data that were analysed using the five steps of qualitative analysis. The findings of the study revealed that unemployed people (a) felt a lack of purpose in life that resulted in them experiencing difficulties in structuring their time, (b) generally spent their time with passive and purposeless activities and (c) experience frustration and anger that may lead to violence, substance abuse, prostitution, drug trafficking and sometimes even suicide. In addition, the participants indicated that unemployed people lose not only their jobs, but also their sense of social identity and self-worth. / Psychology / M.A. (Psychology)

[pt] Esta dissertação procurou identificar o nível de entendimento de dois diferentes públicos em relação ao tipo de linguagem usada nas embalagens de óleos lubrificantes automotivos. O uso de uma linguagem técnica e de expressões em inglês é um desafio para a correta interpretação da informação não só para o consumidor analfabeto funcional, mas também para aqueles que possuem dificuldade com este tipo de comunicação. As teorias de marketing foram elaboradas partindo da premissa de que os consumidores são alfabetizados, o que na verdade se torna um problema, pois cerca de 1/3 da população é considerada analfabeta funcional. A pesquisa foi inspirada no teste S-TOFHLA, que foi desenvolvido para se avaliar o nível de entendimento dos indivíduos em relação à linguagem utilizada na área da saúde. Foi desenvolvido um questionário utilizando a técnica de cloze, que consiste no preenchimento de lacunas com a palavra mais adequada. Os resultados obtidos sugerem que os públicos pesquisados possuem níveis de entendimento diferentes de acordo com seu nível de escolaridade e renda, e evidenciam a necessidade de a comunicação de marketing se tornar mais sensível ao nível de letramento do seu público alvo. / [en] This dissertation aimed to identify the level of understanding of two different audiences in relation to the type of communication used in automotive lubricants oils packages. The use of technical language and expressions in English is a challenge for the correct interpretation of information, not only for the functionally illiterate consumers, but also for those who have difficulty with this type of communication. The marketing theories have been developed based on the premise that consumers are literate, which really becomes a problem, because approximately one third of the population is considered functionally illiterate. The research was inspired by the S-TOFHLA test, which was developed to assess the level of understanding of individuals in relation to the language used in healthcare. A questionnaire was developed using the cloze technique, which consists in filling in the blanks with a proper word. The results suggest that the public surveyed have different levels of understanding according to their level of education and income, and underline the need for marketing communication become more sensitive to the level of literacy of its target market.

Orientador: Odilon Helou Fleury Curado / Banca: Carlos Eduardo Mendes de Moraes / Banca: Elvira Lopes do Nascimento / Resumo: Este trabalho, de base teórica, faz algumas reflexões acerca da leitura e suas implicações no cotidiano escolar; levanta questões de analfabetismo funcional, letramento, papel da escola formadora, metodologia avaliativa contínua e sistemática no ensino. A partir de pesquisa bibliográfica, analisa dados sobre leitura principalmente nas séries iniciais da escola pública e procura revelar como ocorre o processo de alfabetização, como se dá a interação aluno-leitura-escrita. Considera, ainda, as condições econômicas e culturais de estudantes, em sua maioria de escolas públicas, e qual a relação destas condições, como conseqüência, com a falta de gosto pela leitura e com a falta de leitores proficientes, fatores que muitas vezes dificultam a chegada à Universidade. As concepções apresentadas estão todas centradas numa prática social, interacionista, permitindo, assim, um diálogo com o texto e assumindo uma posição crítica e ativa diante de fatos cotidianos, circunstância que poderá causar mudança de comportamento do leitor, uma vez que a leitura é condicionadora de comportamentos e também responsável pela produção de sentido. A proposta é afirmar que leitura não significa mera decodificação do código lingüístico; possui um papel de grande relevância na formação do indivíduo e deverá fazer parte de sua vida, prepará-lo para interagir com o mundo, para posicionar-se criticamente diante da própria realidade. Parte dessa tarefa árdua cabe ao professor de Língua Portuguesa. / Abstract: This work makes some reflections about reading and its implications in scholar quotidian, talks about reading in a very wide-ranging aspect, rises questions of functional illiteracy, "letramento", role of forming school, systematical and continuous evaluating methodology in teaching. Done specially with basis in bibliographic research, characterizing it as theoretic this paper, analyzes information about reading in Grade School from Public School and tries to demonstrate how the teaching reading-writing process occurs, how the interaction writing and reading-student happens and the way that reading and writing are in the student's mind. Yet, it considers the Brazilian students' cultural and economic conditions, mainly from High School, most of them from Public School, having as social consequence the lack of liking for reading, lack of proficient readers, that many times don't get entering the university. The conceptions presented are all centered in a social practice, interactive, permitting this way a dialog with the text, assuming a critic and active position front of the quotidian facts , what can cause change of behavior of the reader, once the reading is conditioning of behavior and also responsible for the production of sense. The work tries to assert that reading doesn't mean mere decoding of linguistic code, it owns a role of great relevance in the forming of person and should make part of his/ her life, prepare him/ her to interact with the world, to position critically front of own reality. Part of this hard work is up to the teacher of Portuguese Language. / Mestre

The Brazilian movement toward literacy Movimento Brasileiro de Alfabetização (Mobral) started with the military coup d état in 1964, having as its main characteristic the quantitative expansion of the education of young adults and adults, being in fact more like a mass process of education than its democratization, that s why the results were really timid and doubtful because it prioritized the adult education. Historically, the campaigns to teach people to read and write promoted by the federal government emerged in Brazil with the proposals to reduce the high rates of illiteracy that started bothering the different levels of government, since the thirties, when the processes of industrialization and urbanization started in a high rate. However, the education continued being offered in an unequal way to the different social classes, such policy reached mostly the economically impaired groups, specially the people that couldn t frequent school at the appropriate age. Mobral, as a public policy to teach people to read and write, is also included in this context. At the beginning of the 1970s, it got to its apogee with the promise of getting rid of illiteracy in ten years, president Médici considered illiteracy a national shame . The aim was to achieve one million two thousand students throughout the country with the measures of the Integrated Program of Education of Mobral. In this period, Minas Gerais was highlighted as the first state in student number and cities that were included in this campaign. This research investigates the process of implantation and development of the Movimento Brasileiro de Alfabetização (Mobral) in the rural area of the city of Uberlândia/MG. The secular clipping contemplated the years of 1970 the 1985, period of validity of the program. Our specific objectives were: understand the process of implantation and development of the Mobral in the rural area; b) to analyze the specifics of this educational experience in the rural context of Uberlândia; c) contribute to the discussion of the history of regional education and, thus, promote the necessary link between the local and the national study. The documentary research was carried out from reading reports in newspaper the Reporter and Correio of Uberlândia , deposited in the Municipal Public Archive. Along the way, also analyze the characteristics and contents of textbooks used in the campaign as the Book of Reading, the express Cartilha of the Mobral and the historical registers in books and photographs which were carefully guarded by some former-pupils and former-teachers. In this process, also resorted to interviews given by those subjects who experienced the reality of Mobral in the field, including the former-coordinator of the program in the city Olga Lara Cardoso. / O Movimento Brasileiro de Alfabetização (Mobral) surgiu no contexto do golpe militar no ano de 1964, tendo como principal característica a expansão quantitativa da educação para jovens e adultos, configurando-se muito mais como um processo de massificação da educação do que sua democratização, de forma que os resultados foram bastante tímidos e de qualidade duvidosa. Historicamente, as campanhas de alfabetização promovidas pelo governo federal surgiram no Brasil com propostas de redução dos elevados índices de analfabetismo que passaram a incomodar os diferentes níveis de governos, desde os anos 30, quando tiveram início os acelerados processos de industrialização e urbanização do país. Contudo, a educação continuou sendo oferecida de maneira desigual às diferentes camadas sociais, tal política atingia muito mais aos grupos economicamente desprivilegiados, especialmente, as pessoas que não puderam frequentar a escola na idade adequada. O Mobral, como política pública de alfabetização de jovens e adultos, também se insere nesse contexto. No início da década de 1970, chegou ao seu apogeu, com a promessa de acabar em dez anos com o analfabetismo, considerado pelo presidente Médici uma vergonha nacional . Pretendiase atingir o índice de um milhão e duzentos mil alunos em todo país. Nesse período, Minas Gerais se destacou como o primeiro Estado em números de alunos e cidades atendidas por essa campanha. Esta pesquisa investiga o processo de implantação e desenvolvimento do Movimento Brasileiro de Alfabetização (Mobral) na zona rural do município de Uberlândia/MG. O recorte temporal contemplou os anos de 1970 a 1985, período de vigência do programa. Nossos objetivos específicos foram: a) compreender o processo de implantação e desenvolvimento do Mobral na zona rural; b) analisar as especificidades dessa experiência educacional no contexto rural de Uberlândia; c) contribuir para a discussão da História da Educação Regional e, assim, promover a necessária ligação entre o estudo local e o nacional. A pesquisa documental foi realizada a partir da leitura de notícias publicadas nos jornais O Repórter e Correio de Uberlândia , depositados no Arquivo Público Municipal. Nesse percurso, também analisamos as características e conteúdos de materiais didáticos utilizados na campanha como o Livro de Leitura, a Cartilha do Mobral e os registros históricos expressos em cadernos e fotografias, que foram cuidadosamente guardados por alguns ex-alunos e exprofessoras. Nesse processo, também recorremos a entrevistas concedidas por esses sujeitos que vivenciaram a realidade do Mobral no campo, inclusive, a ex-coordenadora do programa no município Olga Lara Cardoso. / Mestre em Educação

Orientador: Maria Jose Pereira Monteiro de Almeida / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Educação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-10T17:49:57Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Magalhaes_GloriaLucia_M.pdf: 7351907 bytes, checksum: 4cab769d0e60be975881f6d32a8196ef (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008 / Resumo: Este estudo considera como situação problemática o fato de que as crianças de seis anos, que há pouco tempo estavam na Educação Infantil, já estarem, hoje, no Ensino Fundamental, e tem como objetivo estabelecer modos de trabalhar no sentido do avanço dos conhecimentos relacionados à ciência, numa situação específica, ou seja, nas escolas com crianças não alfabetizadas que vivem na zona rural, no município de Três Pontas/MG, e cursam a Fase Introdutória do Ensino Fundamental. Para tal, consideramos as seguintes questões de estudo: 1. Como trabalhar aspectos de conhecimentos relacionados às ciências da natureza com crianças não-alfabetizadas. 2. De que maneira recursos como a história infantil, a música, o desenho, podem constituir-se em mediações para o avanço das crianças não-alfabetizadas no que se refere a conhecimentos relacionados às ciências da natureza. Para o desenvolvimento do trabalho, dois encontros foram realizados. No primeiro, as crianças foram motivadas a relatar o que gostavam de fazer, como brincavam, onde, com quem, os lugares que freqüentavam e, ainda, suas ocupações diárias. No segundo, ministramos uma aula, na qual o assunto a ser discutido com a turma estava relacionado com interesses e problemas manifestados pelas crianças no primeiro encontro. O arco-íris, algumas questões de gênero, e o Vento foram os temas discutidos durante a aula, na qual a aproximação das crianças com múltiplos recursos pedagógicos como globo terrestre, imagens, textos, fantoches, contribuiu para a mediação de conhecimentos relacionados às ciências da natureza e algumas questões sociais. Foi realizada a análise discursiva, de parte das aulas organizadas e ministradas por nós, enquanto pesquisadora-professora, pautadas, principalmente, em noções de trabalhos publicados no Brasil, por Eni Orlandi, com os recursos mencionados. Os principais aspectos trabalhados relacionam-se a conhecimentos sobre o arco-íris e questões de gênero e o vento. Foi possível evidenciar conhecimentos trazidos pelas crianças e detectar avanços em relação a esses conhecimentos / Abstract: This study considers as a problematic situation the fact that the six-year-old children, that a short time ago were on the Infant Education, already are today in the Fundamental Education, and it has as objective the establishing of methods of working in the sense of the knowledge advancement related to the science at a specific situation, in other words, at the schools with nonliterate children that live in the rural area, in Três Pontas town/MG, and that attend the Introductory Phase of the Fundamental Education. For this, we considered the following study questions: 1. How to work knowledge aspects related to the nature sciences with non-literate children. 2. In which ways resources such as infant stories, music, drawing can constitute themselves into mediations for the advancement of the non-literate children with regard to knowledge related to the nature sciences. For the development of the study, two meetings were performed. In the first one, the children were motivated to report what they liked to do, how they used to play, where, with whom, the places they used to go to and their daily occupancies. In the second one, we ministered a class, in which the subject to be discussed with the class was related to the interests and problems manifested by the children at the first meeting. The rainbow and some gender questions, and the Wind were the discussed themes during the class, in which the children¿s approach with multiple pedagogic resources such as the earth, images, texts, puppets contributed to the mediation of knowledge related to the nature sciences and some social questions. The discursive analyses of part of the classes organized and ministered by us was performed, while researcher-teacher, regulated, especially, in notions of studies published in Brazil, by Eni Orlandi, with the mentioned resources. The main aspects worked with, are related to knowledge about the rainbow, and gender questions, and the wind. It was possible to make the knowledge brought by the children evident, and to detect advances in relation to this knowledge / Mestrado / Ensino, Avaliação e Formação de Professores / Mestre em Educação