Educational practice in the school library: a work from the textual genre legend

Abstract

This article describes the work done with the textual genre legend in the library of the municipal school Alda Rao Neiva, in the municipality of Teresina (PI). The project had as general objective: to broaden the perspectives of teaching and learning beyond the classroom work, emphasizing the context of the school library and its use from activities carried out in the same. The methodological path was drawn from the activities proposed, these being developed always after the interval of the mornings in the school library space. We still use of participant observation and field journal as a way to enable a better understanding of the analyses and the results qualitatively. Despite some obstacles in the course of the development of the activities, the project turned out to be quite relevant particularly as regards the development of collective activities with the students and usability of the school library once it has been demonstrated by some students disregard and the function of this space in the educational context evidenced.