How is literature going at school? ponderations on the space that the literature occupies in brazilian education

Abstract

This article seeks to contribute to the debate about the importance of literary art in the integral formation of reflexive, creative, participatory and autonomous individuals, as Brazilian official documents postulate in their speeches. We present the mismatch that exists in Brazil between the goals desired by the Government and the current practice in schools – Institutions that should fully train their students and, as part of this training, promote literary readers, but do not do so because of various problems , among which we highlight: the derisory time for literature in the curriculum of Basic Education and the deficiency in the degree courses in Languages and Pedagogy in the developmental psychology and children's and youth literature, basic knowledge and markedly needed to deal with the public (children, teens and young people).