O Roleplaying Game aplicado como recurso de ação cultural em bibliotecas públicas

Abstract

The work of conclusion of course has by title: The Roleplaying Game Applied like Resource of Cultural action in Public Libraries. The general objective was to investigate possibilities of using Roleplaying Game, starting from the breaking of the traditional paradigm, as a resource of cultural action in information units. Regarding the specific objectives, the research used information concerning the need to investigate its hypotheses, to prove the guiding question of the research. The objectives sought observable results from the applicability of RPG as a resource for cultural action in public libraries, in order to encourage the development of reading and familiarity habit, leisure alteration, and to recommend RPG as cultural action under the parameters used on observation. The survey and field observation were methodologically interpreted and analyzed, from the qualitative approach, the data were collected and recorded in the field diary. The guiding question of the research, asks if the RPG can be practiced as a resource of cultural action in public or community libraries and stimulate the habit of reading in the participants of the research. Based on this problematic, the research line was based on the theoretical framework and investigated by methods and techniques, which showed in the results the effectiveness of Roleplaying Game. It was concluded that stimulating the reader habit in the participants of the research was due to the RPG applied as a cultural action, since both deal with intrinsic characteristics of the man.