The challenge of teaching reading practice in educational environments

Abstract

This article represents a discussion and theoretical and praxeological foundation that describes the level of reading practices in schooling processes. The aim is to propose an understanding of the act of reading from the perspective of learning, as well as advocate for the extension of this perspective, to include reading practices that take place in everyday life of contemporary societies. It supports an educational action where teachers, librarians and administrators assume the role of agents of literacy, triggering and implementing literacy projects in order to promote reading practices, in classical dimension of the act of reading as much as in his professional and everyday dimension in attention to literacy practices that characterize students from different sociocultural and economic environments, which implies diversity in levels of schooling and the nature of contact with the reading practices. The discussion is based on theoretical studies of literacy, from authors like Brian Kleiman and Angela Street.