O manual do professor de um livro didático de português: uma abordagem discursiva

This research aims to analyze the teacher's manual of a Portuguese Textbook (Livro didático de Português – LDP), targeted at ninth grade Portuguese students. The study is based on the theoretical contributions of discourse studies, especially notions developed by Foucault (2010, 2012a, 2012b). This study is also supported by research on discourse and education, such as those developed by Popkewitz (1995), Veiga-Neto (2003), and Paniago (2005). The main conclusions include that (a) the LDP teacher's manual may be seen as a space of power relationships, in which the teacher is regarded as someone who needs to be supported and guided throughout his teaching practices; (b) the LDP teacher's manual analyzed is produced according to official documents that prescribe the production of textbooks. Thus, this paper is about discourse on textbooks, which are controlled by the Nacional Textbook Program (PNLD), responsible for the crystallization of a model for Portuguese textbook production (RANGEL, 2015).