Dom Quixote, literatura e religiosidade : uma experiência pedagógica na educação de jovens e adultos

Abstract

This research has investigated the relations between literature and religiosity elaborated from the living experience of an elderly students group with different religious beliefs, having as basis the reading and interpretation of the work Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes. What motivated this investigation movements were the discussions on the religious interculturality, that occurred during the realization of literary saraus, in which selected passages from Cervantian work were read and interpreted (that approached the illiteracy issue in adulthood, the desire of knowing and the religious interculturality) by the elderly literacy group, whose age ranged between 60 and 83 years old, in a municipal school in Porto Alegre, in 2006. Here, three action scopes were articulated so that the elderly were able to understand the construction of their identity and their role in the social inclusion process. The first scope has been constituted through a formal educational space represented by the school. The second scope has been constituted through a public space represented by the square. The third action scope, central element of this dissertation, has been the religion sphere, represented by different forms of religiosity in their multiple ways of manifestation. These three scopes have been conjugated through a pedagogical proposal, centered in the reading and interpretation of Cervantes book. This investigation allowed us to ascertain the relevance of religiosity in research subjects life, as well as the importance of sharing experiences and narratives among those who have proposed to sit at the table of dialogue, with the mediation of literary texts, in which the religious interculturality has been discussed.