O PAPEL DO DOCENTE COMO MEDIADOR DA LEITURA NO ENSINO SUPERIOR

Abstract

Despite the consensus that reading is important, many students only have contact with it in schools through short excerpts from textbooks. As such, they reach the upper level with extreme difficulty in acquiring information from their field and with little or no affinity for reading. Trying to solve this gap and highlighting the important role of the teacher in this context, this paper aims to answer the following question: “How can the higher education teacher act as a reading mediator and encourage his students?”. For this, a qualitative and quantitative research was made and the quantitative data were taken from the database of the Gnuteca System of the State University of Goiás (UEG) - Campus Ipameri, thus, we analyzed the amount of books taken by the teachers of that campus. In the first semester of 2019. In addition, a bibliographic search was made in books of renowned authors in the area and also in articles indexed in the Portal of Journals of the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education (Capes), with subjects that could serve as support for work. We talked about the history of reading, addressing the issue of “faults”, discussed the reading habit and the challenges teachers face to motivate their students to read. It is concluded that, despite the amount of material available in the library, few teachers attend and use this material. However, in a world where young people are flooded with distorted, incomplete or even false information, it is imperative that teachers act as mediators and assist in the search for true and quality information. However, to do so, the teacher must enjoy reading, knowing the collection of the library of the institution where he operates and setting an example to his students.