O discurso sobre a função epistêmica da imagem visual no Programa Nacional do Livro e do Material Didático

Abstract

The visual image is a cultural artifact, whose production takes place through human action. Contemporary society has become highly imagetic, considering the various genres of image, the different places and devices in which it is present in our daily lives. Furthermore, visual images have different functions: illustrative, mnemonic, decorative, symbolic and epistemic. The National Book and Didactic Material Program (PNLD) has been responsible for the systematic and free distribution of books. In the PNLD Textbook Guides, we can find not only the review of the copies, but also the aspects required by the program for the selection of collections that will be used throughout Basic Public Education. Considering the hypothesis that there are images with an epistemic function present in the national book program, the object of this research is the discourse on the epistemic function of the visual image in the PNLD and the theoretical-methodological approach used is the Archaeological Discourse Analysis (Foucault, 2008). When mapping the PNLD Guides, analyzing the enunciative fragments that deal with the image with an epistemic function, we analyzed their regularities and identified a series of correlations that make it possible to know the conditions of possibility of the investigated discourse, based on three discursive series: I) the image as text; II) the image used for methodological purposes; and III) the image fulfilling epistemological functions, which confirm the verified hypothesis.