Abstract
The aim of the present research was to describe and analyze the readership process, with university students, focusing on the affective impacts of mediation situations among those students and the literary reading practices lived during their lives, especially in the family environment. The research was carried out with students from the initial years of graduation from a public university, in the interior of the State of São Paulo. The students were from different areas of knowledge, characterized as autonomous readers. Autonomous reader is understood as the person who reads on his own initiative, which suggests that literary reading already represents an activity intrinsically relevant to it. The research is based on theories of the area of Psychology, mainly in the ideas of Vygotsky (1998, 2005) and Wallon (2007Wallon, H. (2007). A evolução psicológica da criança. São Paulo: Martins Fontes . (Trabalho original publicado em 1941)., 2008Wallon, H. (2008). Do acto ao pensamento. Rio de Janeiro: Editora Vozes. (Trabalho original publicado em 1942).). The data collection was performed through the Recurrent Interviews procedure, carried out with university students, who considered themselves autonomous readers. The analysis process grouped the data in Thematic Nuclei, referring to the different mediators identified. Subsequently, these nuclei were discussed based on the assumed theoretical approach. The results reinforce the importance of mediation and its affective impacts on the constitution of those students as readers, discussing aspects detected in the histories of mediations experienced throughout their lives, especially in the family.
Keywords:
Affectivity; reading; mediation