FOR A PEDAGOGY OF THE VISUAL: reading narratives by image in Early Childhood Education
Image Book; image narrative; reception competence of the reader, imagination.
The search FOR A PEDAGOGY OF THE VISUAL: reading narratives by image in Early Childhood Education developed in partnership with the Research Group Teaching and Language, - GPEL, (CNPq / UFRN), linked to the Graduate Program in Education, at PhD at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte - UFRN / Brazil, investigates children's responses to reading images in books distributed by the Ministry of Education - MEC, through the National School Library Program - PNBE. The motivation for researching the reading of the image book stems from the fact that this type of production has developed in quality and quantity, is widely disseminated in the school environment and has not yet deserved, on the part of teachers, the necessary attention on their participation in the development of relation of the child in early childhood education with the image narrative book. Thus, we have as object of study the contributions of narrative books by images for the development of the reader in Early Childhood Education, starting from the initial thesis that the reading of narratives by images promotes the formation of autonomous readers capable of using appropriate reading process strategies. to this type of production. This research has as general objective to investigate the contributions of the narrative books by images for the development of the reception competence of the reader in Early Childhood Education. We guided our theoretical path about reading in the studies of Iser and Stierle (1979), Amarilha (2012, 2013), Colomer (2003, 2007), Fischer (2006), Zilberman (2003, 2008). For studies on narratives and visual language we used Ricoeur (1997), Donis (2015), Camargo (1995), Joly (2012), Nikolajeva and Scott (2011), among others. The methodological path is based on the approach of qualitative research guided by the interpretive interest built in the research process with intervention that was composed of 20 reading sessions, according to the methodology of walking defended by Graves and Graves (1995), valuing the dialogue between researchers and their respective subjects in a given natural environment through an intervention planned according to Bogdan and Biklen (1994) and Gaskel (2002). The locus of this research is a Municipal Center for Early Childhood Education in Natal, RN, Brazil, with 17 children of Level IV Early Childhood Education as subjects, with five years of age. The corpus is composed of the subjects' voices during the reading sessions and is analyzed based on the principles of content analysis by Bardin (2011). The chosen books belong to the PNBE collection, due to their accessibility and quality, selected in five genres adapted for a storytelling book by image: fairy tales, folk tradition, HQ, fable, and wonderful tale. The analysis of the results shows that the mediated reading of the narrative books by images serves as a scaffold for the development of the child's oral language, imagination and reading competence, allowing him to read independently using the appropriate strategies to understand the image text in its specificity; be enchanted by reading, open the door of the imaginary and develop the reception competence of narratives by images. However, the teacher needs mastery over the semantic and syntactic composition of the imagery language code to develop new strategies for mediating reading in the school space.