Perspective on Information Mediation

A study on the mediation practices of the Project Leitura&Ação in the Comunidade Beneficente Zaíla Lavor in Juazeiro do Norte - Ceará

Abstract

It deals with mediation practices with a view to strengthening the various forms of sociocultural and pedagogical manifestation, based on the impacts made possible by the extension actions of the Leitura&Ação project. It denotes in its general objective, to investigate the contributions of the Project Leitura&Ação to the Comunidade Beneficente Zaíla Lavor, based on mediational practices in the field of information, culture and education. It describes in the methodological path the characterization of the techniques and stages of the research through the exploratory and descriptive methods, similarly, we opted for the case study as a research strategy. It presents as a data collection instrument (participant observation and action research) and the evaluative pole (qualitative content analysis). It outlines the interventional actions of the Leitura&Ação project to analyze the impact of mediation practices in the Comunidade Beneficente Zaíla Lavor, from the diagnostic stage and from the categories previously established in the theoretical framework. Concludes with the final discussions on the results achieved during extension actions, verifying the new perspectives of action in the Comunidade Beneficente Zaíla Lavor according to the informational services developed, having the mediation of information as support to galvanize formative practices by interdisciplinary content.