School books and anthologies: towards a return of readings to School
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The anthologies of literary texts for school purposes, a very popular and useful resource used up to the 80s, gradually changed their face and gave way to textbooks. This latter recontextualising instrument has some advantages but also visible impoverishments for reading training.
At a time when the literary education returns to the programmatic stage of basic education with renewed vitality, we should rethink the relevance and the role of school anthologies, the supplementary functions and the ability they have to reintroduce more literature, more authors and texts.
Thus, these observations rehearse a didactic solution, not removing the textbooks from their pedagogical centrality, but redesigning the way the students could contact, with the texts and the literary education.