EDUCATION IN LITERATURE AND BLACK IDENTITIES BUILDING IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Abstract

Studies identification between 3rd grade elementary school apprentices from a public school in Natal/RN-Brazil and fictional characters in black children’s literature reading. Investigates possibilities of practices with this kind of work for affirmative identities building, in a qualitative and interventional approach. Corpus centers in two individuals who experienced different identification processes: mirroring and deviation from the referent. During 13 reading sessions, 6 works of Brazilian and African black children's literature were read. The class teacher has been trained and acted as mediator in a scaffolding attitude. Results point to the potential diversity in apprentices’ response due to the complexity of the problem of ethnic identity, immersed in historical, social and psychological processes that update racism, which represents a challenge to mediators, who have in literature a promising field for its confrontation.