O hábito da leitura na formação do professor

Abstract

This work describes and analyzes the teachers’ relation with and their taste for reading, through a field research applied to teachers who work in Elementary/Primary School and Secondary/High School, with the objective of designing their profiles as readers. In order for this research to become effective the group of interviewed teachers has been defined and then selected for worked level. Based on the teachers’ statements, the research has observed their behavior as readers, since childhood until present days. For the purposes of the investigation to be achieved, a field research has been developed, being applied to five teachers of a State School, and six factors have been analyzed: the development of the teachers as readers, their education, experiences and preferences, their personal book collection and their relationship with reading.