Teaching Gestures and TechnicalSemiotic Instruments in the Literacy

Abstract

The article discusses the literacy teacher’s métier, emphasizing pedagogical resources and teaching gestures. To understand the educational dynamics of literacy, it brings data constructed in a research with literacy teachers inspired by the theoretical-methodological principles of the Clinic of Activity and resumes the notion of professional gesture to circumscribe the notion of teaching gesture. From a cultural-historical perspective, the analyzes make explicit the articulation between teaching gestures and technical-semiotic instruments and suggest that the complexity of the teaching activity is related to the process of instrumental genesis oriented towards the activity of the teacher and students in the literacy process.