Banca de DEFESA: ANTÔNIO CARLOS SILVA JÚNIOR

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STUDENT : ANTÔNIO CARLOS SILVA JÚNIOR
DATE: 20/12/2023
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: Remoto
TITLE:

We, from the South, in Basic Education: southing the teaching practice and Spanish language education in the Brazilian state of Sergipe

KEY WORDS:

Southing; Teaching Practice; Spanish Language Education

PAGES: 449
BIG AREA: Lingüística, Letras e Artes
AREA: Lingüística
SUBÁREA: Lingüística Aplicada
SUMMARY:

This research is in the field of Applied Linguistics and its main objective is to offer
alternatives for the southing of both teacher praxis and Spanish language education in Basic
Education, based on experiences with future Spanish language teachers in the state of Sergipe,
Brazil. To achieve this end, four specific objectives were established: a) to understand the
south and its oppositions in respect to the southing of teaching praxis and Spanish language
education; b) to develop Spanish teaching material for Basic Education that take into
consideration voices from the south; c) to analyze teaching materials created in collaboration
with research participants in a process of southing teaching praxis and Spanish language
education; d) to evaluate the implications that the engagement with the created materials
raised for both the teaching praxis and Spanish language education in Basic Education in a
southing perspective. The theoretical framework that supported the thesis discussions is
constituted by the following southing pillars: Applied Linguistics; southing; teaching; Spanish
language education; and social identities of ethnicity, race, gender, and sexuality. In regard to
methodological support, this research is qualitative in nature, with a heuristic basis, as it
encompasses self-reflection processes of those involved in and with the study. The research
was carried out with eight undergraduate student-teachers from the Spanish Literature course
at the Federal University of Sergipe (UFS) who were taking part in the Institutional Teaching
Scholarship Program for Beginner Teachers (PIBID), and with four Spanish language classes
from the Laboratory School of UFS (CODAP/UFS), that is, a group of the 6th grade in
Elementary School and the 1st, 2nd and 3rd grades of High School. The research instruments
used were questionnaires, field notes and selected teaching materials prepared by the
researcher in collaboration with the student-teachers. To generate, record and analyze data,
the following strategies were adopted: group discussion and follow-up meetings with the
student-teachers, observation of classes in which the created materials were implemented and
critical sessions with the Basic Education students and the student-teachers. Through this
heuristic process with a collaborative bias, in search of a methodology “otherwise”, the group
of student-teachers, divided into four pairs, created teaching materials that included voices
from the south – indigenous people, women, black people and LGBTQIA+ - which were then
taken to CODAP/UFS classrooms. Regarding the analysis of the data generated, this study
used contributions from Discursive Textual Analysis – DTA (Moraes, 2003) for recognizing
its assumptions as a new paradigm that seeks to understand phenomena in a plural,
heterogeneous and transversal way. As a result of the analyses, it was possible to understand
how the southing of teaching praxis, during the research process, supported the proposal for a
Spanish language education from the south shared in the classrooms involved in the research.
Among the main mobilizations towards the epistemic and geographic south are the following:
attention to voices and the local context; need for socio-identity literacy of the participants of
the study; coherence in the representations of the social identities covered; projection of
places for listening and speaking; diversity in origin and discursive genres; pedagogical
investment in linguistic materiality; and engagement with intercultural dialogues.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - 307008 - MARCIA PARAQUETT FERNANDES
Interna - 1563574 - EDLEISE MENDES OLIVEIRA SANTOS
Externa à Instituição - DORIS CRISTINA VICENTE DA SILVA MATOS - UFS
Externo à Instituição - LUDMILA SCARANO BARROS COIMBRA - UESC
Externo à Instituição - VALDINEY DA COSTA LOBO