"Anthologies, Discourse and Literacy" is a Project that started with researches on Bilingual Poetic Anthologies, developed by Professor Silvana Serrani at IEL/UNICAMP and it is sponsored by CNPq and FAPESP.

The objectives of the research group are:

1. To study multi-cultural and bilingual anthologies of several discourse genres, from an archeological-discursive point of view and following recent developments of cultural theory, considering the building of memories and socio-cultural cartographies. (Foucault, 1986; Orlandi, 1987; Pêcheux, 1990; Williams, 1993; Courtine, 1994; Nora 1996; Eagleton 2003/2005a/2005b);

2. To analize the macro-structure of the anthologies in the corpus (secondary sources: prefaces, forewords, preliminary essays, prologues, biographical notes from writers and/or translators, postscript, etc) and their primary sources: selections from texts according to different topics of cultural theory in focus;

3. To develop taxonomies for the anthological discourse and to organize a Database of Anthologies published during the last decades;

4. To examine the presence (or absence), role and functions of literature in language teaching (Bartlett e Holland, 2002), in teacher formation and development courses and schools in the official educational Brazilian system

5. To develop case studies using anthological materials in educational literacy practices, especially in reading and writing activities, considering the developments in the curriculum study area (Stern, 1993; Coste, 1996, Serrani, 2005), in the contexts of language teacher formation mentioned above, and bilingual education of Brazilian young people.

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