My reflectoins about Scholarship

Based on Machado (2011) and Feire (1989 ). I want to discuss the importance of reading. Machado( 2011)  argues that reading improves people´s intelligence and creativity. Freire (1989 ) also discusses the importance of reading saying tthat we read the world before reading the word. The context and rhe reader´s experiences are important to interpret what we read . She also argues that children should read literature for pleasure that parents and teachers should also read literature enjoy reading it in order to motivate children to read it pleasantly. Machado (2001; 2011 ) also argues that every children has the right to read literature and to have access to this cultural heritage .Moreover , Almeida (2017 ) argues that literature is also important for the social, cognitive and emotional development of children. By reading literature, the reader discover new worlds, other cultures, new ways of thinking and acting (Almeida , 2017) Silva ( 2008) defends that literature is crucial to the cognitive development of children. Reading literature also makes people have a critical view of the world in which they live in. Reading literature makes the students think critically..

However, rhere is a serious issue in Brazil. There are many elementary school teachers who do not like reading and who are not readers and they don't read Literature so they can´t encourage their students to read with pleasure and to become readers. Many writers, specialists and teachers discuss this problem. The Brazilian writer Ana Maria Machado (2011) argues that when some Education students are doing an undergraduate Education course, they are taught to impose tasks to their future pupils and they do not study to appreciate Literature as an art and to read Literature pleasantly.  So, my research question is : How can I make Brazilian undergraduate Education students realize that it’s very important that they are readers and enjoy reading Literature in order to encourage their future pupils enjoy reading Literature ?

 As future teachers they need to be readers and enjoy reading Literature in order to encourage their future pupils to read Literature pleasantly.

Methodology

Bibliographical research and action research.

My reflections about scholarship and reading in the digital world

Brookfield (2017) discusses how we can become a critically reflexive teacher using four lens: the students’ 'views, the colleagues ' views, the personal experience and the theory. Brookfield´s book (2017) made me realize how a teacher can improve his / her practice by listening to the students´ opinions, other teachers' views, reading theory and use his /her personal experience to make the teachers and the students critically reflect about what they are teaching and what they are learning.

Freire (2013) also influences my view as a reflexive teacher  . He argues that students and the teachers and colleagues should dialogue and share their experiences. Freire (2013) also argues that the students and the teacher should be aware of the social and political problems we face in the society in which we live in. The group of students and the teacher should reflect crittically about the ipolitical and siocial ssues we face in the society and in which they live in. 

. The digital world has changed the way people communicate with each other, research , read and write. We can access any kind of information at any time in a faster way (Pareja, 2013). But we have to select the information available in the internet. I adviset my students to research in university websites, academic journals and articles.

They can also visit digital libraries and access online bookshops and official writes websites in order to read and buy books.

 References

Almeida, V.(2017).  Literatura infantojuvenil.( 2^nd Edition) . Curitiba: Editora Fael .

Brookfield, S . (2017) . Becoming a critically reflexive teacher. (2^nd Edition). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

Freire, P. (1989). A importância do ato de ler em três artigos que se completam. (, 23rd edition). São Paulo: Autores Associados; Cortez.

Freire, P. (2013). Pedagogia do oprimido. (E-book). Rio de Janeiro: Paz e Terra.

 Machado, A. M. (2001). Texturas: sobre leituras e escritos. Rio de Janeiro: Nova Fronteira.

Machado, A. M. (2011). Silenciosa algazarra: reflexões sobre livros e práticas de leitura. São Paulo. Companhia das Letras.

Pareja, C. J. M. (2013). Leitura e escrita na era digital. Curitiba: Fael.

Silva, A. L, da. (2008)‘’Literatura infantil: qual a sua contribuição para o desenvolvimento da leitura nas séries iniciais? ‘’Soletras, Rio de Janeiro, n. 16, 2008, p. 31-39. Acessed on November 2nd 2017 at /http://www.e-publicacoes.uerj.br/ojs/index.php/soletras/article/view/5007/3679