Do artesanal ao digital : uma genealogia dos meios de produção e reprodução de folhinhas de atividades em cadernos de alunos.

Abstract

This research is found in the field of school material culture and investigates the worksheets produced by teachers, handed out to students and fixed in their school exercices books. Analyzing the material characteristics of these sheets identifies the tools, equipment and empirical strategies used by teachers in the production and reproduction of such didactic material that also is configured as a scriptural device. A total of 14,383 worksheets were identified in 419 school exercices books, from the collection of the research group “History of Literacy, Reading, Writing and Textbooks” (Hisales/FaE/UFPel), corresponding from the 1960s to 2000s. These students’ worksheets and school exercices books are set both as source and object, since they are interwoven with one another. This overlap condition, of the worksheets within the school exercices books, leads in this case to the apprehension of an inseparable relation between them, and this status modifies the materiality of the two materials. Thus, aspects related to the fixation and folding ways are also addressed. Complementary sources also selected for the analysis include the pedagogical manuals, the magazines of the education, and the magazines of the globe. The worksheets were categorized according to the means of production and the means of reproduction, such as: the worksheets produced by the pen and/or pencil, mimeographed worksheets, carbon-folded worksheets, typed worksheets, photocopied worksheets, and printed worksheets. A relationship with the school material culture was established taking into account the materiality of the worksheets, which also allowed understanding the school empirical culture expressed by the activities and strategies developed by teachers in the production and reproduction of such materials.