LEER EN CONTEXTOS: EXPERIENCIAS DE LECTURA EN ESTUDIANTES UNIVERSITARIOS

Abstract

The following article is the result of the first stage of the research The construction of the reading canon. Formation, selection and development of the personal readings of the students attending the Faculty of Social Science of the University of Lomas de Zamora.

It was conceived as a text to analyze the interviews carried out with students of different careers, with the purpose of inquiring into the ways in which their reading paths were built.

The interviews were conducted in different moments of their formation and they were read from a frame proposed by the ethnography and sociology of the reading.

The approach of this research with the sources does not respond to the cognitive approaches or quantifiable criteria, it pretends to understand their reading paths by collecting first-person testimonies regarding their own experience, the episodes that were edifying in such pathways to reading and the obstacles that had to be faced.

Moreover, it is interesting to observe how students identify and narrate their different reading stages, how they perceive themselves towards culturally normalized ideas related to the reading subject, the methods to read and the book in its material nature as an object as well as a knowledge reservoir.

It is worth noting that in this research the current situation of the interviewers is relevant, due to their immersion in a context of professional formation.

Therefore, the analysis is focused on the individual experiences (after the situations undergone during the COVID-19 pandemic), and the influence they had in their current practice of reading, for example, the increase of the screen time.

We suppose the originality lies in shedding light on an opaque path through which institutions do not usually walk. In this sense, the development of this research took two years and goes in a direction that is constantly being rebuilt.