Good Practices in the Formation of Reading Mediators and the Challenges of Remote Teaching

Abstract

Discussion about good practices developed as a methodological process in the discipline "Reading and the Training of Readers", in the Librarianship Course of the Federal University of Maranhão (UFMA), through remote teaching, google meet platform and youtube, in the pandemic period of COVID 19, referring to the period from 2020 to 2021. This paper is an experience report on the process of training reading mediators, built together with undergraduate students, which was a creative process, considering the need for methodological changes, with regard to "new" ways of teaching and learning, based on the challenges imposed by the remote teaching model, but also boosted the reinvention of university work and knowledge, through good teaching, research and extension practices. In this context, the dialogical and shared method was favored in the development of pedagogical actions, through the planning of reading activities and mediation experiences that culminated in the XII Monteiro Lobato Week and the creation of the Reading Club, through workshops, round tables, and dialogues with specialists in the field of reading and literature. The reality of the teaching and learning process at the university in the pandemic period resulted in significant and challenging changes, especially in relation to methodological processes, teacher-student relationships, and the social and critical uses of information and communication technologies, as well as an attentive look at other possibilities of humanization through literary reading of different textual genres.