Letramento jurídico para mulheres privadas de liberdade

Abstract

This article deals with the reading comprehension development legal textual genres by incarcerated women. The study pursues two objectives: reporting a significant portion of an educational product application process, entitled “Didactic intervention proposal for legal reading training on incarcerated women”, along with eight female inmates in the Women's Public Prison of Londrina, Paraná-Brazil; exposing information and reflections regarding the application. With theoretical contributions on literacy, textual genre, discursive domain and legal textual genres, a didactic material was elaborated and applied, as previously mentioned, dealing with the didactic intervention proposal for legal reading training on incarcerated women, focusing on the construction of essential traits meanings of legal genres, for a group of women imprisoned in the mentioned female public jail in Londrina. An action-research was carried out in five meetings of two classes each, one meeting per week. In terms of results, the women demonstrated an understanding of the textual genre concept and its intimate relationship with the discursive domain notion and presented a reasonable performance in the reflective reading comprehension exercise with regard to recognizing the relevant constitutive elements of legal genres with immediate interest. Therefore, the elaborated didactic material proved to be viable and productive for its social reach.