POTENTIALITIES AND WEAKNESSES IN MEDIA-EDUCATION PROJECTS IN THE NEW TEXTBOOKS IN THE LANGUAGE AREA IN HIGH SCHOOL
The objects of study of this master’s degree investigation are the Media Education Projects presented in two of the new high school textbooks, proposed for the area of Languages and their Technologies. As an objective, we seek to analyze, in the theoretical-methodological field of Applied Linguistics, the configuration of these Mediaeducation Projects within the scope of the PNLD-2021 and their relationship with the BNCC and with the so-called “literacy pedagogies” (Kalantziz, Cope and Pinheiro, 2020)), that is, ways/traditions/discourses of teaching certain literacy practices at school. With the enactment of the BNCC (2018) and the High School Reform (Law nº 13.415/2017), a new configuration of High School was inaugurated, based on the development of skills and competences and on the division between the curriculum represented by the BNCC and the diversified part (training itineraries). This change in this stage of basic education directly affects the elaboration of textbooks - now organized by areas of knowledge as prescribed in the Reform - and whose selection is based on the PNLD edict (2021), which prescribes that didactic works by areas (Educational Objects 1) present four integrative projects, among them the media education analyzed here. Based on the reflections of Silva (2018), Zank (2020), Coscarelli and Ribeiro (2021) and Fratine e Silva (2021), the research investigates two collections that presented two Projects with similar teaching objects: “Integramundo” and “Jovem Protagonista". This investigation is divided into two levels: didactic level – dialogue with project pedagogies and curriculum level – BNCC competencies and skills and literacy pedagogies. From the analysis, it is possible to verify that both projects present as positive points: the thematic treatment with the “short film” genre, the analysis of different language practices in diversified activities and the functional approach of the teaching objects. However, both are fragile when working with literary texts and with the critical approach.