Literacy: education's conceptions and contexts

Abstract

The present article, made by the activities' development in a extension project to prepare literacy' s teachers: a boarding for the prevention of the learning difficulties", argues about questions frequently speak in media concerning the reading and writing failure's causes among Brazilian students. Constructivist is considered as scene's villain and, for this, a lot of teacher defend traditional practices as a way for overcoming the problem. The study was made with literacy teachers in 24 public's schools of Guararema city and investigated the real reasons for students to read and write well in basic education. We have as intention to promote the improvement of the teach-learning process and the consequent overcoming of learning difficulties. The inquiry was used individual interviews, some discussions inside little courses and also some meetings with the teachers, beyond analysis students' texts and solved literacy inadequate practices, we can see some difficulties to understand Constructivist conception.