%0 Journal Article %T Social representations of reading: central and peripheral elements of these representations among teachers %A Elsa Maria M. Pessoa Pullin %A Leila Cleuri Pryjma %J Pr¨¢xis Educativa %D 2011 %I Universidade Estadual de Ponta Grossa %X This paper aims to characterize the structure of the social representations of reading held by fi rst and middle-school teachers from city public schools in a city in the interior of Paran¨¢, Brazil. A free word association test was used for data collection. Of the 322 different words recorded, which were processed by the EVOC software, the elements ¡°know¡±, ¡°inform¡± and ¡°essential¡± seem to be central. For this group of teachers, reading is essential and necessary for knowledge acquisition. Implications of these meanings of reading and suggestions are presented throughout the paper. %K Reading %K Social Representations %K Teachers %U http://www.revistas2.uepg.br/index.php/praxiseducativa/article/view/2439/2316