Schools, school libraries and university extension at UFPA, metropolitan campus of Ananindeua, State of Pará, Brazil

Abstract

Município de Ananindeua” (Schools and School Libraries of the City of Ananindeua) was carried out throughout the year of 2016, developing actions to train teachers from the City’s public network through workshops structured with topics, methodologies and low-cost material, directed to the encouragement of reading in childhood education and elementary school. The project is linked to the Programa Institucional de Bolsas de Extensão (Institutional Program of Extension Scholarships – PIBEX2016/UFPA), and in its first version qualified 150 teachers through four workshops carried out on the second semester of 2016. As of this experience, six schools started a process of improvement of their reading rooms and gathered a small collection of books donated by teachers, student’s parents and partners of the project, with wide dissemination between schools about the activities developed from the topics and methodologies presented at the project’s workshops.