LITERACY AND THE CHALLENGES OF PEDAGOGICAL MEDIATION

Abstract

This paper addresses an issue of extreme relevance to educators and scholars of children's education: the importance of reading and writing during Kindergarten and Elementary School. It starts from the premise that reading and writing are fundamental to the individual's integral formation and that these skills, when developed from an early age, favor the construction of man in an integral way and, above all, enable ever more autonomous citizen participation. To this end, it is based on the assumption that it is up to the educator of children in Early Childhood Education to know the theories that deal with this subject, as well as to base themselves on the studies already carried out that promote the effective learning of these skills, in order to improve their practice even more. In view of this, this article aims to discuss the need for professionals at this level to deal with issues that concern children in training, considering them not just as children, but, above all, as children who will become future citizens, autonomous and competent enough to intervene in their social environment, transforming it, which requires, above all, the full development of reading and writing. This makes it extremely important to teach reading and writing at an early age, in order to start the process of building up these subjects. As far as the methodology used here is concerned, this article was based on bibliographical research, which focuses on showing and discussing what some respected authors in the field of education think about the subject in question.