Documentos personales: construcción de sí y el arribo a la literacidad académica

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PERSONAL DOCUMENTS. CONSTRUCTION OF ONESELF AND THE ARRIVAL TO ACADEMIC LITERACITY

Abstract. This work is part of the research project «Curricular processes and accompanying practices» (PCyPA). Is focused in a set of reflections derived from the use of personal documents in educational practices in order to adress the role of reading and writing in the training processes of the subjects, in particular the peculiarities of the arrival to academic literacy. First, we highlight the role of Chicago School studies in the use of personal documents; second, we characterize the role of personal documents in the inquiry. Later, we focus on the diary and the life story, instruments used to work on the construction of oneself and academic literacy; we point its use in education; We exemplify with some extracts personal diary writings of personal diaries ¾elemental and higher education¾; via a life story, we capture the arrival to academic literacy and the encounter with books. In both cases we highlight the role of writing and reflective thinking in the training processes. We close the article with some reflections on the role of personal documents in training courses.