Afeto, diálogo e crítica em leituras sobre as diversidades: relato de um exercício

Abstract

This article reports on a pedagogic experience called “Literatures of Diversities”. Based on works by Paulo Freire and Cremilda Medina, who encouraged us to adopt affection as a fundamental pedagogical element, communication studies students and those from other related fields were invited to perform critical readings of works on diversities, including any and all minority and underrepresented groups. The proposal proved to be creative by abandoning an individual analysis in favor of perceptions shared among colleagues, moment in which they could dialogically exercise speaking and listening positions. This bivalent appreciation of the text and one’s own existence – and/or the existence of others – is combined in a process of reframing the situation of those who have historically been pushed to the margins of the social world.