THE DEVELOPMENT OF A MEDIATING ARTIFACT FOR THE PRACTICE OF LITERARY CHRONICLE WRITING IN HIGH SCHOOL, BASED ON THE INTERDISCIPLINARITY BETWEEN INFORMATION DESIGN, FREIREAN PEDAGOGY AND ACTIVITY THEORY
Design/Education; literary chronicle genre; panel of stories; freirean pedagogy; Activity Theory.
This work presents a case study carried out in a state school in Fortaleza, Ceará. The study design was based on an ethnographic approach, through non-participatory observation in the classroom, semi-structured interviews with teachers and analysis of textbooks approved by the 2021 National Textbook Program (PNLD), distributed to schools in 2022. The analysis, carried out with the Writing and Portuguese Language teachers, was oriented to the object of study of the research, the literary chronicle genre. Among other aspects, the absence of writing exercises and encouragement for teachers to produce support material for the content of the books was observed. Thus, the experiment built by the researcher and teachers aimed to develop a mediating artifact for the practice of writing literary chronicles, the Panel of Stories. The artifact had the participation of first and second year students, through the application of questionnaires. The experiment was guided by the conceptions of participatory design aimed at education, by the principles of Freire's pedagogy, with notions of cooperation, student protagonism, playfulness and orality. Through the theoretical-methodological framework of the Activity Theory, it was based on Leontiev's activity levels and on the Engeström diagram as analytical tools. Through them, it was possible to verify the relationship between the subjects and the tool through stimuli applied as social rules, in addition to possible improvements through critical notes at operational levels. The project culminated in the compilation of texts written by the students, which resulted in the school's literary chronicle book project. It is being applied again at school in 2023, autonomously by teachers. The artifact proved to be not only a resource to support the content of textbooks, but also a resource in itself, with potential for use in other schools in the state, including other text genres.