The activity of reading and writing and the development of imagination

Abstract

This article aims to focus the discussion on the importance of educational work for the development of the creative imagination of the child. It considers imagination as a means of organizing the content that is proper of the imaginary (ideas, emotions, perceptions, ways of seeing and feeling the world), from where it feeds itself, taking from it the elements that are reworked by the activity of the subject in order to transform them into an original product. Throughout the text, wepresent some proposals that suggest how to accomplish a pedagogical work with fiction prose and poetry, aiming to develop the creative imagination of the student. We believe that working with literary texts is an interesting way of mobilizing the content "stored" in the imaginary of the students throughout their existence, and its organization in creative output, allowing them to appropriate themselves of determined learning that leads to the development of capabilities that are fundamental to their process of humanization.