IN AND OUT-OF SCHOOL PERFORMANCE OF THE LIBRARY

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF ITS PERFORMANCE IN PRIVATE AND PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOLS MANAUS-AM

Abstract

Considering the results obtained in the National Examination of Secondary Education (ENEM) in 2014, we sought to analyze the reality of the school library in Manaus-AM, in the private and public sphere (state and federal) and its influence on students' educational performance. The research was funded by the Foundation for Research Support of the State of Amazonas (FAPEAM) through the Institutional Program for Scientific Initiation Grants (PIBIC), the research was carried out from the second half of 2015 to the second half of 2016. The projects that these libraries develop, how they are perceived by students, teachers, professionals working in the library and managers. In this perspective, the problem points to: what is the interaction and performance that the school library exerts on the student in the intra and extracurricular context, in public and private schools? To solve this problem, the research was developed in three phases: project qualification, data collection and research completion. In the first phase, bibliographic and documentary research was used. Data collection was done in three schools, two public (state and federal) and one private. Four questionnaires were elaborated to obtain information about the subjects of the study: professionals working in the library, 2 (two) per school; 15 (fifteen per school); 8 (eight per school) and the school manager 1 (one per school). The data, both quantitative and qualitative, were analyzed based on the knowledge acquired from readings and recordings made in the first phase of the research. As for the results, it was verified that the libraries of the studied schools are interactive spaces and even without large structures (except for the Library of the Federal School), all of them execute projects that favor interaction with their students and teachers.