Escrita fora da escola: experiências de crianças nos espaços de uma comunidade rural

Abstract

Based on the subsidies of the New Literacy Studies, this article aims to investigate the uses and the involvement of children, from a rural community in the north of Minas Gerais, with writing outside of school. In this context, the analysis of the participation of children from this community in literacy events was privileged. Research from an ethnographic perspective was adopted and a participant observation was carried out in 2012 in the community. The study involved conducting semi-structured interviews, the production a field diary, audio and video recordings and collecting of written artifacts used and/or produced outside the school. The research evinced that multiple literacies occur in this context and that children find availability and access to writing in the community. In contrast, the research showed that, despite the access and availability of writing in the community spaces, these knowledges are not part of the patrimony taught in the context of the local school.