CRITICAL LITERACY IN VULNERABLE ENVIRONMENTS: from the Social Assistance Reference Center (CRAS) to practices in/of everyday life
Critical Literacy, Vulnerability, Critical Applied Linguistics.
Languages are social and cultural phenomena that transform, adapt and reconstruct themselves, progressively, according to each nation from time to time, underrepresented in diverse social groups. Languages have increasingly risen in prominence in the contemporary world. The study aims to understand how the mobilizations of literacies are promoted, in the context of the Centro de Referência de Assistência Social (CRAS), north Mato Grosso-Amazon, and how they promote the development of critical consciousness of people in vulnerable situations. Qualitative methodology was used to obtain a more holistic view of the research participants especially the guidelines of Bauer, Gaskell and Allum (2015), Mattos (2011), Moita Lopes (1994). The journey allowed to collect various data through the instruments such as participant observation, reflective diary, semi-structured interview, documentary record and the focus group, because such techniques help to validate the embodiment of the records as stated by the authors Ludke and André (1986), Gil (2008), Gaskel (2015) and Gutierrez (1993), Fonseca (2002). However, to identify and analyze the data, the theoretically anchored lenses on Critical Literacy from the perspective of Critical Applied Linguistics (LAC) by authors such as Freire (2015, 2017, 1989, 1979) Menezes de Souza (2011), Monte-Mór (2015, 2018), Jordão (2013), Kleiman (1995, 2005), Tfouni, Monte-Serrat and Martha (2013), Luke and Frebody (1997 apud HOPPE, 2014), Sardinha (2018), Street (2014, 2015), Pennycook (2006), Rajagopalan (2003), Signorini (2006) and among others. These authors understand language as a social practice. Based on the proposed studies, therefore, I understand that social practices of language, driven by literacy events, therefore, are inseparable phenomena, from literacy practices. In other words, they coexist. In short, it was found that the literacies in the research locus do not make use of alphabetic reading and writing at all times, but of dialogues, conversation circles, painting on canvases, crafts, dances, lectures, workshops, among other forms. However, the development of critical consciousness occurs quickly, subtly, and sensitively, because their positions are not with crude, rude, harsh words or long speeches. The critical literacy of people in vulnerable situations are representations of short sentences in relaxed dialogues in everyday moments.