School Newspaper as a Counter-Hegemonic Media - A School Journalism not Framed by Dominant Commercial Journalism

Abstract This paper analyzes the influence of alternative newspapers in a media configuration of a school newspaper. The newspaper was produced as an experiment of teaching and learning Portuguese, developed in a municipal school in Florianópolis/SC, Brazil, whose participants were 25 students, the teacher, and two researchers. In this experiment, which was grounded in Critical Genre Analysis (BONINI 2011; 2013), alternative newspapers - e.g. neighborhood, church, party papers - were used as the basis for pedagogical work. Considering the phases of the production process of specific school newspaper, this study aimed to check the type of media produced and whether it would fit, to some extent, within a counter-hegemonic media profile.