The Other in Literary Fruition: the Reading and Teacher Development in the University Sphere

Abstract

Immersed in the fields of Education and Applied Linguistics, I try to systematize some reflections on the processes of literary fruition and their relationship with teacher development in the university sphere, taking as reference the academic period of 2022 and 2023. From the position of a professor teaching the theoretical-practical core of the Unicamp Pedagogy course, I analyze the students’ written productions regarding their fruition reading choices when asked to review the books they read. Based on the studies of the Bakhtin Circle, on Vygotsky’s theoretical-methodological framework on human development centered on the Historical-Cultural approach and, dialoguing with the Cultural History's perspective, concerning the representations of reader and reading, I seek to problematize the statements of students in the discursive chain constituted in Higher Education. Their utterances materialize through dialogue with many others – professors, university colleagues, Basic Education subjects where they train, and, in these relationships, they produce their replicas. Taking, therefore, teaching as an objective to be achieved, promoting and sharing reading practices has proven to be a powerful resource to inspire discussions about how the discourse of the other constitutes the statements of students in the process of academic and professional training.