A leitura dialógica em contexto penitenciário: vozes femininas que ecoam responsivamente na construção de sentidos

Abstract

This dissertation aims to investigate the practice of dialogic reading (Cf. BATISTA- SANTOS, 2018) within a women's penitentiary in Palmas - Tocantins, as a way of producing critical knowledge, reflection and identity formation, since it seeks to to create a learning space where incarcerated women can envision their voice being heard and legitimized, beyond the 'world of crime'. Its specific objective is: a) to investigate the construction of meanings through the practice of dialogic reading in the context of incarceration; b) analyze how the constitution of the reading identity of inmates (responsive reading women) took place. Linked to these objectives, the questions that are sought to be answered are the following: 1. Is it possible to find literacy within a prison? 2. Do women in prison who have dropped out of school present gaps (or 'fail') in terms of literacy? 3. Does the prison provide the necessary support, unlike the outside world, for literacy development? 4. Did these women discover their voice through reading, even though they were in prison? 5. Can reading in prison or is it emancipatory? The theoretical basis is related to studies on literacy (STREET, 2014) and reading from a dialogical perspective and the epistemology of emancipatory education (FREIRE, 2019; 2020). The methodological nature is part of a qualitative-interpretative perspective, in the field of Applied Linguistics. The methodological instruments used were an adaptation of the Thinking High in Group (ZANOTTO, 2014) from an interview and two reading experiences. The research subjects were five women who were inmates in a female penitentiary in the capital of Tocantins. The analyzes were elucidated, based on the theoretical framework, to answer the questions that guided the research. As a result, it was found that: a) it is not only possible to find literacy within the prison, but it was also found that the participants discovered their subjective and dialogic voices through reading, confirming that the act of reading in prison is a way of emancipation and liberation; b) the inmates emancipate themselves when they become aware of their state and from there they seek to transform it in a critical and reflexive way.