Policies for the teaching of news practices and the production of school newspapers in Argentina and Brazil

Abstract

The introduction of language practices as curricular contents in Argentina and Brazil, beginning in the 1990s, entailed the choice of ways to represent, textualize and teach such practices. In this article, the policies for the teaching of news practices in the two countries are analyzed, both those launched by ministries of education, at the national level, and those launched by education departments of the municipalities of Buenos Aires and Florianópolis, at the local level. After that, the identified policies are checked through the analysis of four school newspapers, two from each city. All the analyzed materials refer to the stage of primary education in Argentina and elementary education in Brazil. The work is guided by the theoretical perspectives of Glotopolitics and Critical Genre Analysis.