Banca de DEFESA: ANDRÉA CRISTINA SOARES COSTA

Uma banca de DEFESA de DOUTORADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : ANDRÉA CRISTINA SOARES COSTA
DATE: 28/07/2020
TIME: 15:00
LOCAL: sala de conferência virtual
TITLE:

 

 

 

LETTERS AT THE MUSEUM: AGENCY AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT

 

KEY WORDS:

Key-words: Literacy. Museum. Literacy catalytic agent. Social development.

PAGES: 153
BIG AREA: Linguística, Letras e Artes
AREA: Linguística
SUBÁREA: Linguística Aplicada
SUMMARY:

ABSTRACT

 

Museums are non-formal educational spaces that provide the organization of activities and initiatives that encompass many areas of knowledge since interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity are inherent characteristics of theses places and, at the same time, traverses its entire dynamics of working and routines. In sight of the understanding that museums may be perceived through different viewpoints and approaches, this study is developed having as its scenery a museum institution located in the countryside of the state of Ceará. The research is based on the field of Applied Linguistics, a field that understands itself as transdiciplinar and open to dialogues with other areas and fileds of knowledge. The main goal of this research is to comprehend how the aforementioned museum acts as a literacy catalytic agent. In the theoretical scope, the study is based on the postulations of the Literacy Studies (STREET, 1984; BARTON e HAMILTON, 1993, 1998; KLEIMAN, 1995; 2001; OLIVEIRA, 2008; ROJO, 2009; PAZ, 2008), electing as categories of analysis the elements: participants, dominance, artefacts and activities as established by Hamilton (2000); in the genre social approach inspired by New Rhetoric (BAZERMAN, 2005, 2006, 2007; MILLER, 1984, 2009); in New Museology (CHAGAS, 1994; MOUTINHO, 2014; GABRIELE, 2014; TOLENTINO, 2016).  Regarding methodology, the research follows a qualitative approach (BOGDAN; BILKLEN, 1994; CHIZZOTTI, 2000) of interpretative basis (MOITA LOPES, 2006), assuming an ethnographic perspective.  The corpus of the research comprises 5 different events devoted to literacy observed at the museum, field observation and notes, questionnaries answered by 5 professionals from the museum (staff members and directors), a Conversation Circle with 7th grade visiting students. The relevance of this research resides in three aspects: a) in the contributions it will provide to Literacy Studies, especially in thinking the museum as a literacy catalytic agent; b) in the colaboration for the development of works of Applied Linguistics; c) in the emphasis on the potential of transdisciplinary dialogues between Literacy Studies and Museology. The data analysis shows that the museum plays diverse social roles, making it clear its multifaceted capability to inform, educate, catalyze literacies and motivate literacy agents, through the promotion of permanent and temporary exhibitions, visitation activities, book lauching, enablement of lectures and Conversation Circles as well as other activities and events that may emerge from new requests. In this sense, we conclude that the exchange between Museology and Literacy Studies is capable of generating a convergence between these fields and also produce a considerably meaningful discussion about the role of museums as literacy catalytic agents and their propensity for the colaboration of local social development.

 

BANKING MEMBERS:
Interna - 1674285 - ANA MARIA DE OLIVEIRA PAZ
Externa à Instituição - MARIA CECÍLIA FILGUEIRAS LIMA GABRIELE - UnB
Interna - 1149420 - MARIA DA PENHA CASADO ALVES
Presidente - 332207 - MARIA DO SOCORRO OLIVEIRA
Externa à Instituição - NADIA MARIA SILVEIRA COSTA DE MELO - UERN