THE IMPORTANCE OF LITERATURE FOR TRAINING THE CRITICAL READER

Abstract

: Reading was for a long time considered just a means of deciphering codes, today, more than that, it is known that it is an instrument of citizenship formation, and reading is considered a form of critical citizens. Education has undergone major transformations in recent decades, especially teaching methodologies have been questioned, so new alternative teaching proposals are developed, including active teaching-learning methodologies. This work seeks to analyze from the scientific production how active methodologies can stimulate critical reading. While the traditional methodology has as its main focus the transmission of knowledge via the teacher, he is the holder of knowledge, in the new methodologies the teacher becomes a mediator, guiding the student in his own search for knowledge. The active methodology, as the name implies, turns the student from a passive receiver of knowledge to being active in the search for it, being a protagonist while the supporting teacher facilitates and guides the experiences in this learning process, classrooms can help a lot in this change being multifunctional, facilitating group activities and to enrich this process, mobile technologies can also be adopted. Thus, active methodologies build meaningful learning, favoring the formation of individuals with an inquisitive, flexible, critical personality, capable of facing uncertainties and ambiguities, capable of perceiving and constructing new meanings around them, favoring the confrontation of changes in a process called learning to learn.