Leituras do estranho em contos de Geraldo Maciel: uma proposta metodológica híbrida na formação de leitores

Abstract

Society is increasingly connected and dependent on digital resources for daily communication and basic activities. This inevitably affects education, as evidenced by the creation of Law No. 14,533, which instituted the PNED in 2023, the same year that digital education began to be considered a duty of the State. As a result of this increase, we have developed reading guides, aimed at high school, that connect the practice with digital media to classroom work, in order to contribute to the development of reading in literature classes. In the classes, we base ourselves on short stories from the fantasy literature of Geraldo Maciel from Paraíba and we seek to include different digital resources to assist and enrich reading moments, also through the website As muitos vozes, created to support these practices. We highlight the author's choice for his literary quality, seen through the treatment given to the short stories, the mixture of "realistic" and fantasy literature, his power of conciseness and, at the same time, of reaching deep layers in narratives that deal with misery, poverty, prostitution and, also, the eternal ambiguity of humanity, inevitably composed of good and evil. With the research, we wish to answer the following questions: How can fantasy and regional literature (in the figure of Geraldo Maciel), in high school classes, contribute to the development of reading skills?; How can a hybrid methodology of teaching literature, when planned, structured and based on a participatory methodology, favor the encouragement of reading and the development of readers? In view of this, our general objective is: To analyze the presence of the strange in Geraldo Maciel's short stories with a view to proposing a hybrid teaching methodology, in high school classes, that encourages the development of readers. As specific objectives: i) To analyze fantastic stories from Geraldo Maciel's literature; ii) Promote knowledge of Geraldo Maciel's work; iii) Reflect on the benefits of regional and fantasy literature for the development of reading skills in high school; iiii) Investigate the benefits of hybrid experiences in teaching literature for reading development in high school. Regarding classroom practice, we base ourselves on the foundations of Aesthetics of Reception (JAUSS, 1979; ISER (1996) and on the idea of the leading role of reading in literature classes (COLOMER, 2007; COSSON, 2014, SILVA, 2022, ZILBERMAN, 2012). Regarding the Internet and its benefits for teaching and learning, we base ourselves on Horn and Staker (2015), Bacich, Tanzi Neto and Trevisani (2015), Moran (2002), Orofino (2005) and Prensky (2001). Throughout our research, it is clear how the Internet has helped to promote reading and how its benefits in teaching literature are plausible, such as: offering more reading options; giving students more freedom and autonomy; socializing receptions in digital environments; expanding students' reading repertoire, etc. We also proved how Geraldo Maciel's literature can contribute to expanding students' reading repertoire and making them enter fantasy literature, contributing to the process of reader formation and favoring it.