Sobre a formação continuada em artes visuais: experiências narrativas a partir da cultura visual

Abstract

This Master's Thesis of the Postgraduate Program in Education (PPGE) of the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM) has as theme the continuing education in visual arts and is based on stories from the perspective of Arts-Based Research (ABR). This qualitative approach has emerged as a possibility of questioning traditional forms of research, long considered as the only acceptable types of research. ABR supports the use of different formats of writing and the combination of various narrative modes in research reports. Thus a narrative interview will be used as a technique for data collection, because it allows the telling and hearing of stories. The visual and textual narratives are central in this work for they ascribe to the interaction of the group the employee‟s identity and subjectivity by means of the reporting of their experiences. Based on the thematic axes of continuing education and visual culture, we seek to dialogue through the following questions: What conceptions of continuing education the research collaborators have? How do these teachers of visual arts propose spaces for talking about their experiences, listening to and discussing issues related to visual arts education? Does the present problem aim at reflecting upon how the subjectivation and the teachers‟ identities interrelate with the continuing education in visual arts? The survey was conducted with three contributors, all teachers of visual arts in office in Santa Maria/RS.