Maria José
Bestete de Miranda
Graduated
in Pedagogy and Visual Arts. Pedagogue. Servant at the State Department of
Education of Espírito Santo (SEDU). PhD student in Educational Sciences at the
Inter-American Faculty of Social Sciences (FICS). Email:
mariajosebestete@yahoo.com.br
Sérgio
Rodrigues de Souza
Graduated
in Pedagogy. PhD student in Educational Sciences at the Inter-American Faculty
of Social Sciences (FICS). srgrodriguesdesouza@gmail.com.
ABSTRACT
This article
addresses the issue of the origin and development of children's literature. Its
scientific relevance is already present in thematic research, because this
literary modality has become a fundamental part of Pedagogy and the
intellectual and cognitive training of children and adolescents, receiving a
special chapter in teacher training courses in the initial grades of elementary
school. Its social relevance is present in the discussion it brings about the
personological development of its target audience, inserted and transformed
into films, series and other types of media and marketing objects. This is a
bibliographical research work, discussed based on the authors' empirical
knowledge on the subject and explored in order to clarify that the origin and
development of children's literature have distinct histories and definitions,
and are not subject to criteria of hasty and defined analyzes in sociological
studies; rather, its bases of apprehension and understanding are based on
anthropological studies, supported by the psychology of the unconscious. In
general, studies on the origin and development of this type of literature are
based on Western thought and all its delay caused by the institution of
Christianity, by the Catholic Church, which took care to maintain in the most
absolute state of illiteracy [almost] all western world. And, this condition is
reflected in the formation of myopic researchers who cannot see beyond Europe
as the center of the civilized world. This is not what is presented in this article,
in which the theme is treated as a pragmatic human construction, destined for a
specific purpose and which, given human phylogenetic evolution, remains alive
and pulsating to this day.
Keywords: Children's and young adult literature. Pedagogy. Psychology. Ontogenetic and phylogenetic development.
Reviewed by Current Scientific Journal
on
fevereiro 15, 2024
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