READERS, READING AND THE PNBE BOOKS IN AND FOR EDUCATION OF YOUNG ADULTS AND ADULTS

This paper is part of a study carried out for a doctoral thesis in Letters. The study aims at exploring the impact of an educational policy called Programa Nacional Biblioteca da Escola (National Program for School Libraries, PNBE), which focuses on literature in the contemporary school. Students from a primary municipal public school and registered at EJA (Adults and Young Adults Education) represent the empirical voices for the understanding of the research problem. Theoretical support is based on studies on literature as a human right (CANDIDO, 2004), on the experience of reading (LEWIS, 2003), and on reading as a way of helping young people to become craftsman of their own lives (PETIT, 2013). By means of action-research and other methodological procedures it was possible to understand young adults' reading history, the functions of the school library and the dilemmas concerning appropriation of reading as a social-cultural source, based on the collections distributed by PNBE.