Poetics project

poetry as thought and education

Abstract

The academic extension program entitled “Poetics: Teacher Training Project and Literary Readers Qualification” in cooperation with the Federal Rio de Janeiro State University (UNIRIO) aimed to read many literary poetic texts with public school teachers from Niterói, State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. However, this program was not restricted to this kind of audience, it received graduation students, reading agents, storytellers and people who identified with the theme of the classes. The methodology used was the interpretation of selected poems, as well as reading and discussion of critical texts, which dialogue was made from hermeneutic poetic. The result of this work was that all participants increased their textual production and the student-teachers rediscovered their positions inside the classroom, as in their private lives.