The reading journals and the expression of subjectivity from the student-reader: an experience in remote education

Abstract

This article is the result of a research performed in the Program for Post-Graduate Professional Master Degree in the Letters Course, in the Federal University of Uberlandia and came from the necessity of proposing new teaching methodologies that would contribute to the formation of young readers and give them opportunities, through the subjective dimension in reading, a potential and significant encounter with literature in the classroom. To do so, we traced a bibliographic research which passed through official documents, such as BNCC, the considerations about the subjective dimension of the literary reading and the relevance of the reading journals as expression of subjectivity by the student-reader. However, we were surprised by the pandemic caused by Sars-CoV-2, which suspended the present activities in the Brazilian schools. Given this event, the methodological intervention planned to happen in person was reconfigured to be applied remotely. We chose workshops, which objects for aesthetic fruition were fictional stories which contemplated the reading of literary texts, listening, speaking and writing of reading journals. Through these written records, we could observe how the reading experiences offered by dialogue with the read texts, made possible for the participants to comprehend themselves, other people and the world around them.