TELLING VERSES, TELLING STORIES: CONTRIBUTION OF CORDEL LITERATURE IN BASIC EDUCATION

Abstract

The classes taught in Basic Education, specifically, along with the Portuguese curricular component, need to consider cultural, social and also historical aspects about local experiences. At the same time, cordel literature, because it has a more popular circulation aspect, turns out to be a textual genre that is especially representative of regional culture, and is also interesting to work on notions focused on musicality, the valorization of different linguistic varieties and the exploration of different ways of working with grammatical notions and less erudite ways to settle,  for example, spelling rules. Thus, this article has the main goal of examining the contributions that cordel literature can bring to the teaching of Portuguese language in basic education, considering its role in democratizing knowledge and its contribution to the valorization of local culture. In this way, with a bibliographic posture, it treats the analyzed data with a qualitative approach that excels in more recent studies that express an appreciation of the genre under investigation here. The results showed that the cordels have a playfulness inherent to their compositionality, contributing in a very significant way to the pedagogical actions committed in the Portuguese classes.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.56238/sevened2025.008-001