Literacy: a change for a new time

Abstract

In face of the current society, in that the school must be capable to form prepared people to get different knowledge, the literacy concept overcomes the definition of being just the acquisition of the decipher technique and code of the linguistic signs. In this sense, being alphabetized comes as the possibility of use of such knowledge in benefit of expression ways and communication in a certain cultural context. Consequently, this article brings and shock among two antagonistic teaching conceptions; the empiricist, observed through the experience in period of training and the constructivist that is defended in this work. Starting from there, a reflection about this confront is accomplished and pedagogic initiatives that value the child as subject of its own learning are shimmered.