Reading aloud: Teaching practices in high school and the cultural formation of Brazilian elites in the 20th century

• Autor(a) principal: Medeiros, Rejane Rodrigues Almeida de
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Ferreira, Luzmara Curcino
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Working Papers em Lingüística (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/workingpapers/article/view/71360

Our objective in this article is to analyze the representations of the teaching of reading manifested in schoolbooks edited in the first half of the 20th century and used in Portuguese language classes of Brazilian high school. This topic was chosen, in order to understand the reading practices that were prioritized, in view of the socio-cultural, distinctive and hierarchical function of the secondary school in that period, intended primarily for the leading elites of the country. Supported by principles and reflections of the Cultural History of Reading, and from a corpus formed by didactic works adopted in high school, namely, Céu, Terra e mar (1914), by Alberto de Oliveira, Manual de califasia e arte de dizer (1930), by Silveira Bueno, O idioma nacional na escola secundária (1935), by Antenor Nascentes, and Português através dos textos (1969), by Magda Soares, we found that in the Brazilian high school, reading out loud was especially encouraged, since it  had special attention in the recommendations of these didactic works, establishing a very close approach with the tradition of the rhetorical art with the objective of developing specific skills related to the domain of eloquence, which represented one of the essential attributes in the formation of the children of the national elite that was moving form an agrarian to  a progressively urbanized area in this period of Brazilian State formation and consolidation.