Arte literária, espaço da infância: a inserção da disciplina de literatura infantil nos cursos normais da região da fronteira sul do Rio Grande do Sul

Abstract

This study aims to analyze the insertion of Children's Literature discipline in Standard courses of the southern border of Rio Grande do Sul region. This research is part of a personal desire of the researcher, which is graduated through this modality in a school in Bagé/RS. Also the researcher finds herself driven by issues surrounding the approach of children's literary world with its main audience, the children. The process of this research turned into the three thematic studies: curriculum, the documents that legitimize the presence of specific knowledge in education; the Teaching Courses (Curso Normal), recognized as minimum modality for training teachers of early childhood education and early grades; and the Children's Literature, whose existence is ensured and justified by its aesthetic and artistic quality. Starting from an analysis of the educational and ideological nature of the curriculum, as well as about the history of the Teaching Courses, mainly in Brazilian educational scenario, and the Children's Literature course of study throughout its existence, its status, its importance for cognitive and human development of children and their presence in teacher degree courses. Based on these concepts, the insertion of Children's Literature course in eighteen Teaching Courses was analyzed through reflection on the curriculum and study plans, as well as about the interviews with school teachers. Through the crossroads of all this information, we tried to reflect on the different conceptions of knowledge literary child, its importance in the school and in teacher training courses so that they can recognize the reality of the insertion of the same in the courses in particular with regard to the theoretical and methodological concepts covered as essential to the future teacher performance. Hopefully, with this research, assist in studies on teaching and on the conceptions of literature, in particular the Children's Literature as well as serving as a documentary source of data on the curriculum of the discipline in the series of teacher training courses and early childhood education.