Reading training between books and social networks: the meanings sought by basic education students about the city's public library

Abstract

This article sought to apprehend the meaning that basic education students are building for their city library. The effort consisted of investigating the significance they attach to the municipal public library in terms of its functionality, thus highlighting the institution's relationship with the teaching-learning process. Such effort was undertaken guided by the approach of cultural history, based on the semiotics of Roger Chartier (2002). The research, of a quanti-qualitative nature, was developed in the 2016-2017 interstice on the premises of the Capistrano de Abreu Municipal Public Library, in the city of Maranguape - Ceará, and consisted of three stages. In the first, with a bibliographic focus, the readings underlying the theme were made; in the second, the questionnaire was used as an instrument, with multiple choice objective questions, applied to the research subjects; in the third stage, the tabulation of data and the elaboration of graphs, to then analyze, from a comprehensive perspective, the sense that students point out about the library in its relationship with knowledge. The results demonstrate that the public library is perceived by the students as being a support for the school's pedagogical action in its teaching-learning process, given that the meaning built on the institution is confused with the school activities in which the student is asked to solve.