Information competence on the national book and reading plan, aspects about the reading mediation and mediator training

Abstract

In the perspective of training a reading society, extinguish illiteracy and promote social and informational inclusion, the federal government in Brazil created the National Book and Reading Plan - PNLL in 2006, to promote and encourage reading in all country regions. The Axis 2 of PNLL's purpose is to create mediators and readers in the perspective of information competence and to confirm this purpose, developed this research with the goal of establishing theoretical reason both for Education and Information Science, about the mediation and information competence concepts; identify the competence presence on the mediator training projects; analyze each action structure, using the characteristic competence dimensions in information, and prepare Standards and Indexes of Information Competence as a strategy to develop individual reading capacity. The study is a combination of exploratory and descriptive research, with content and document analysis, adapted to the Collective Subject Discourse (CSD). For project analysis, we used all documentation provided by PNLL Coordination and recovered the historical registries from 10 actions, available on the internet, by the project or promoting institution name. Each project content's reading was carried out based on the characteristic dimensions of the information competence, and the index and standard construction observed the American Library Association (ALA) and American Association School Librarians Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AASL) models.