Fios da memória como leitores e produtores de textos: narrativas dos acadêmicos do curso de educação do campo da UFT – Arraias

Abstract

This work aims to present data from a research whose general objective was to analyze the constitution of reading and writing practices in the life history of undergraduate students in Rural Education: Codes and Languages – Visual Arts and Music at Federal University of Tocantins (UFT) – Campus Arraias. This course was implemented in 2014, through struggles of the working class, especially those connected to the countryside, with the purpose of training educators associated to the struggles of rural peoples, able to understand and give opinions from the reality that includes school. We used bibliographic and field research with a qualitative approach and, to substantiate the study, we studied the ideas of Abrahão (2003), Arroyo and Fernandes (1999), Bauer and Gaskell (2003), Bogdan and Biklen (1994), Bueno (2002), Caldart (2009), Fiad (2015), Kleiman (1995), Kramer and Lea (2003), Lüdke and André (1986), Marinho (2010), Martins (2020), Moura, Sales and Khidir (2016), Soares (1998), Souza and Meireles (2018), among others. In addition, we used the technique of document analysis based on narratives produced by academics through a directed study activity developed in the discipline Production of Academic Genres I, present in the course matrix, in which the results show some difficulties of students concerning the period of basic education. In addition, this activity sought to compare the processes experienced during the students’ school period with the academic genres at the university in the present time. The data showed that the main causes of the obstacles cited by the students stem from gaps related to the pedagogical training of teachers, adequate teaching methodologies and investment in school improvements, especially for students from the rural context. We hope that the research can contribute to the discussions about the reading and writing practice of students from Rural Education course, based on their life stories.