READING MEDIATION OF THE SHORT STORY IN THE CLASSROOM

In Brazilian high school, literature is often taught as if it was encyclopedic knowledge and through the reading of commentaries and criticisms of actual literary works. This paper questions these practices and offers an alternative approach in which the teacher becomes the mediator of readings, directing its focus to the reception of texts by the students. In order to exemplify this proposal, this paper draws on the use of short stories as learning practice in the classroom.