Working projects at university
students as collaborators for developing academic literacy
Abstract
One of the difficulties students face when entering Higher Education is writing and academic discourse. This essay analyses a pedagogical practice considering working projects as guidelines for planning reading and writing education at the university. It is part of an action research that led to doctoral thesis entitled Academic Literacy – working project at university; defended at UFRGS in 2016 first semester. This essay aims to analyze if the pedagogy of projects allows treating students as collaborators for developing academic literacy. Data collection was based on a group of students enrolled in Text Reading and Production I Course at Univates University Center during 2013/B semester. Excerpts from field diaries and interviews that report interactions among participants of the projects while they read and produced texts will be analyzed in order to construct academic knowledge on the theme. While conclusive data, it is evident the importance of the projects as a possibility for students to engage in developing academic literacy mainly through dialogue, cooperative work, negotiating decisions, imposing new ways of doing and discoursing at university.
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