THE LITERATURE TEACHER AND IDENTITY TRAINING

Abstract

This work highlights the potential of research related to the development of the Literature teacher as a provocateur in the formation of students' identity. With the general objective, to analyze and review the teaching practice of the literature teacher of the 3rd grade of High School, with the purpose of advancing in terms of methodologies in literary teaching, with a view to contributing to human formation. In this way, the analysis starts from the teaching given in the state educational institutions in the State of Goiás, based on the Reference Curriculum of the State Education Network. Added to this, the concept of cultural identity is approached from the work The cultural identity in postmodernity by Stuart Hall Stuart (2006), as well as Antonio Candido's view on literature in the formation of man and, finally, we take as a reference the work Essay on blindness, by José Saramago (1995) as an example of reflective literature. The reflection pointed to didactic possibilities that provide more dynamic classes of literature in the 3rd grade of high school in the State Education Network, with the objective of consolidating the teaching of literature to contribute to the formation and identity construction of students. With that, it was possible to realize that the teaching of literature to achieve its intentionality needs to go beyond the teaching of literary historiography. Therefore, it is necessary to have reading and reflections so that their contribution to the formation of the human being is positive and relevant.