Expanding Views: literature, time, space, thought and society

Abstract

The Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology Sul-Rio-Grandense ([2024])  – Camaquã Campus carries out teaching, research, and extension activities aimed at promoting reading. Among these, the project Tracing the Reader’s Profile (2015–2022) stands out, revealing students’ interest in broadening their understanding of reading practices, often linked to humanities and language subjects. Based on this experience, the teaching project Broadening Perspectives was created, with the goal of fostering critical readers and promoting reading mediation. The selected literary works were Torto Arado by Itamar Vieira Junior (2019), Olhos d’água and Ponciá Vicêncio by Conceição Evaristo (2003, 2014), approached through an interdisciplinary lens that took time, space, thought, and society as criteria for analyzing the literary works. The methodology involved meetings and guidance for extracurricular reading, along with activities for monitoring and recording observations. The theoretical framework is grounded in Paulo Freire’s (1991) concept of culture circles, which advocates for knowledge construction through dialogical and democratic processes. The results were significant: students produced seminars, discussion circles, critical reviews, theatrical sketches, and participated in the campus’s II Ethnic-Racial Relations Showcase, highlighting the pedagogical and social impact of the project.