Open AccessNew Literacies, New Narratives: Impact on a Portuguese Kindergarten
Author(s) -
Sónia Pacheco
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
international journal of literacy, culture, and language education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2642-4002
DOI - 10.14434/ijlcle.v4i0.26919
Subject(s) - portuguese , narrative , government (linguistics) , order (exchange) , everyday life , pedagogy , public relations , sociology , psychology , mathematics education , political science , business , linguistics , philosophy , finance , law
The present article aims to discuss our daily need to read everything that surrounds us and to properly use the information which comes to us from different kinds of media. The country, society, schools and teachers have to keep up with the new roles that children attribute to them in order to meet their needs as they grow up in a digital world. This article seeks to understand how the decisions and government guidelines made today by policy makers have a real impact on the everyday life of a Portuguese kindergarten and in the practices of teachers and their students. I used both interviews with kindergarten teachers and nonparticipant observation of the children's computer activities to collect data. This study concludes that the teachers who were interviewed feel the need for a change, and their educational suggestions show exactly that need to keep up with the interests of children.