A biblioteca escolar e suas funções: o caso da escola "Mundo Encantado", em Lavandeira -TO

Abstract

In this research we discuss the importance of the school library and its fundamental role in the educational context, recognizing the benefits it can provide for students' education. As a central objective, we were interested in understanding the functions of a school library, from the perspective of Early Childhood Education teachers and the management team of the Municipal School "Mundo Encantado", in Lavandeira-TO and, more specifically, discussing the social role of a library school; characterize what uses were made of this space by each of the teachers; identify whether the library constituted an ally in the pedagogical work of each of them, as well as describe how moments of collective reading were organized at school. To construct this work, we carried out studies on the topic based on the works of authors such as Campello (2013), Milanesi (2013), Pimentel (2007), Souza (2009), among others. This research was conducted using a qualitative approach, involving observation of the school, notes in a field diary and semi-structured interviews with five Early Childhood Education teachers. The results highlighted a peculiar scenario, in which the teachers investigated, until the conclusion of this research, had not yet organized visits with their students to the space designated for the school library, not even to get to know it. This was partly due to the fact that the library lost its original space to make way for a new classroom, due to growing demands for enrollment, and also due to renovations at the school. With all these changes, the collection was taken to another environment, considered by the teachers to be a small place, with little ventilation, and which was intended exclusively for loaning books, without the possibility of local consultation, which we consider to have been a very big loss for the school community.