The republican Portuguese Language curricular proposal that Magda Soares has been building with the educators of Lagoa Santa – MG: coherence and innovation

• Main Author: Artur Gomes de Morais
• Format: Article
• Language: Portuguese
• Published: Universidade Estadual de Ponta Grossa 2018-09-01
• Series: Práxis Educativa
• Subjects: Curriculum; Portuguese Language; Initial reading instruction; Literacy
• Online Access: http://www.revistas2.uepg.br/index.php/praxiseducativa/article/view/12255/209209210249

This paper analyzes the curricular proposal of the Portuguese Language of the Municipal Network of Lagoa Santa - Minas Gerais, Brazil, as it has been (re)built under the coordination of PhD Magda Soares, in order to understand its theoretical framework and contributions to overcome the failure in the teaching and learning of the mother tongue in public schools of this municipality. After indicating reasons to collectively prescribe curricula in public education networks, we seek the relations between the goals in progress of Lagoa Santa and the agreements on how to teach and assess the processes of learning to read and write and literacy negotiated through the network education practiced in the municipality. Compared to different versions of the goals (from 2008 to 2017), we analyzed the developments and details that were made possible through the continuous work of the professional development installed. Next, we highlight aspects of theoretical and didactic coherence that would explain certain options of the curricular proposal, such as the immersion of children in the written culture (reading and production of texts, appropriation of the alphabetical system) since the Early Childhood Education. Finally, after anticipating and discussing criticisms that could be made to the proposal in focus, and to claim that the conditions forged for its collective construction is that they would guarantee its success and coherence, we analyze how the goals of Lagoa Santa would prove to be innovative and promoters of the republican ideal of democratization of a public education of quality.