The librarian on the agenda in the practice of storytelling: an educational activity encouraged in school libraries in Grande Vitória, Espírito Santo State, Brazil

Abstract

The act of telling stories has accompanied humanity since the beginning and this trajectory imposes and has been structuring new actuation areas. Thus, the objective of the study is to analyze and understand the storytelling act in some school librarians who work in elementary school professional trajectory in Vitória, Espírito Santo State, Brazil (RMGV-ES) metropolitan area. The methodological articulation is based on the Life History method and, takes up the professional narratives and examines them in a socio-interactionist approach. The result is that storytelling is a manifestation that intertwines imagination and creation, often relying on a transformative subjectivity, keeps communicative and cultural memory alive and disseminated. In short, in the path of cultural action, the act of telling stories rebuilds and reframes the conjecture of reading practices and, in general, interviewees indicate that the graduation course does not prepare them for carrying out these activities. In this panel, professionals suggest that the act of storytelling should be included in the curriculum of library science courses. Thus, the school library has the task of being an orb of knowledge, cultural flexibility, citizenship exercise and locus creationis - for multiple exchanges and literary interventions. The conclusion states that the action of storytelling brings meaning and value to the teaching-learning process in education, especially for elementary school students. It is emphasized that the school library and the librarian, with storytelling, help the student educational and social development, stimulating the imagination world and the awakening of new readers.