The literature space in contemporary times: teaching initiation experiences in the technological Brazilian education, the IFSul –Bagé case

Abstract

This article searches to discuss the space held by literature in Brazilian technological schools, thinking about the place of literature in contemporary times through theoretical researches and the experiences of teaching initiation scholarships by the project PIBID –Letras, that had implemented projects at IFSUL/ Campus Bagé, aiming to promote literary literacy for the students in this system of education. The choice of this theme is due tothe concerns that the experiences led to the group that worked in the literature discipline in the school during two years, from 2014 to 2015. In our theoretical approach, we discuss concepts about the place of the art in contemporary times and the humanizing and democratic characteristics that the contact with literature involves. At IFSul, it was possible to identify that literature occupies a limited space in this system of education, what results in a different teaching load among the Integrated Courses that the school offers and, also, that the school community expresses a pragmatic view about the role of literature in the young students’ education. From the relations we built between our theoretical research with the scholarship experiences and to theperceptions about the projects of literary developed by PIBID at IFSul, it was possible to access the limited space dedicated to the literary art in the institution, as well as in which ways we achieved our objectives during the implementation of the projects