PORTUGUESE CLASS AS ENCOUNTER BETWEEN THE OTHER WORD AND THE WORD OF THE OTHER: A STUDY ABOUT ECOLOGICAL RELATIONS

ABSTRACT

This article has as its theme the event Portuguese class taken as an encounter (Ponzio, 2010a), as it pertains to the education of the students as readers and producers of text-utterances. The objective was to draw possible implications in the event Portuguese class from: a) the organizational setting of the administrative actions in the scope of the educational institution; b) the setting of the literacy events and practices in the scope of the study field groups; and c) literacy practices of the students that participated. The theoretical basis includes the Vigotskian ideology, the Bakhtin Circle and the studies in literacy. From the data gathered, I infer that there are two school cultures in the field of study, in ecological relations, which are, namely, culture of (un)ease in School 1 and culture of (re)affirmation in School 2. Thus, I support the thesis that the event Portuguese class as encounter implies ecological relations in the scope of the two school cultures coexistent in these same relationships: the (un)ease and the (re)affirmation, reiterated/feedbacked, respectively, in/by the three dimensions of the tripartite architectonics of each culture, both referenced by the other in the encounters — or lack of such encounters — of the subjects immersed in the larger ecology under study.

KEYWORDS
Portuguese class; ecology; encounter; reading; written text production