<b>Brazilian students´ narratives about the history of Brazil: a study about the consumption of the narrative cultural tool</b> - DOI: 10.4025/actascihumansoc.v26i1.1557

  • Elenir Voi Xavier de Moura UEM
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4025/actascihumansoc.v26i1.1557

Abstract

The aim of this work is to verify how 35 Brazilian University Language students consume the official history of their own country. They were requested to tell (30´ to 60´) what they knew about the history of Brazil. This research is based on Wertsch (1998), who tried to define the representative figures in the history of their country, according to the American University students. The criteria to analyze the narratives was "the construction of characters". These criteria consisted of three other sub-criteria, namely, the frequency of the characters´ mention, the pattern of agency superordinate and subordinate and the pattern of postulated presence. For the Brazilian students, Brazil history is constructed around a character (or group of characters) that is not Brazilian, but the Portuguese, and also, the globalization, the richer nations, etc. All the texts were rooted in the theme "unconformity with the unfair exploration of our country since its discovery"

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Author Biography

Elenir Voi Xavier de Moura, UEM
Possui graduação em Letras pela Universidade Estadual de Maringá (1983), mestrado em Letras pela Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho (1992) e doutorado em Lingüística Aplicada ao ensino de língua estrangeira pela Universidade Estadual de Campinas (2005). Atualmente é professora do Instituto de Línguas da Universidade Estadual de Maringá, atuando principalmente nos seguintes temas: teoria sociocultural, pesquisa sócio-interacionista, estratégias de aprendizagem e formação de professores de língua estrangeira Currículo Lattes
Published
2008-03-31
How to Cite
Moura, E. V. X. de. (2008). <b>Brazilian students´ narratives about the history of Brazil: a study about the consumption of the narrative cultural tool</b&gt; - DOI: 10.4025/actascihumansoc.v26i1.1557. Acta Scientiarum. Human and Social Sciences, 26(1), 23-33. https://doi.org/10.4025/actascihumansoc.v26i1.1557
Issue
Vol 26 No 1 (2004)
Section
Literature and Linguistics

 

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