Arte para a docência: Estética e criação na formação docente

Abstract

This paper discusses thepossible relations between art, aesthetics and teacher training in all fields of knowledge, based on experiments conducted during the disciplines of Didactics of undergraduate programmes and on challenges coming from various artistic productions such as the work "Las Meninas" by Diego Velázquez and the exhibition "Take Care of Yourself," by Sophie Calle. By wondering whether art and the aesthetic experience can support the act of teaching or whether it is possible to find room for creation for basic education teachers, we believe in the potential of art-especially contemporary art-in dislodging our established ways of questioning our teaching activities: planning, methodology and teaching strategies, modes of evaluation and recording. As one realizes how much the act of teaching finds itself immersed in a prescriptive and sensible pedagogical discourse, not very often allowing itself to be influenced by the challenges art is able to offer, one of the main goals of this article-with inputs from Michel Foucault's and Friedrich Nietzsche's theories-is to potentialise the ideas about our own ability to reinvent the activity of teaching and its training processes, transforming them, somehow, into "works of art.".