IS LITERATURE TAUGHT?

Abstract

The purpose of this text is to discuss the teaching of Literature in the context of Basic Education, establishing a comparative analysis, seeking to identify similarities, differences, or possible points of conflict in the guidelines of the National Curriculum Parameters and the Common National Curriculum regarding the development of literary reading and the teaching of Literature. As a discipline inherent to the field of arts, when migrating to the pedagogical sphere, as a subject of knowledge and learning in the Humanities area, Literature began to raise more effective demands, concomitant with the development of literary reading. Since 2017, the term "teaching" of Literature has given way to the expression "literary reading," understood as a path to be constructed within a continuous process of formation, which cannot be taught, but articulated by a set of readers and texts, which, therefore, need to go beyond the fragmented reading of excerpts from works present in textbooks.