Aprendizagem do conceito de estética: contribuições da teoria do ensino desenvolvimental para o ensino de artes visuais

Abstract

The current study had as a investigative focus the learning of the concept of aesthetics on the perspective of historical-cultural theory, especially based on the contributions of V. Davydov s developmental teaching theory. This research privileged a form of a teaching organization of an art content, in addition to conventional teaching procedures, would contribute to the formation of theoretical thinking, combining ownership of content required for formation of the aesthetics concept with the development of related intellectual capacities. With this intention, the investigative proposal was directed to research the following questions: How does the teaching of visual arts can be organized so that student learning results in the formation of concepts? Working on the concept of aesthetic theory and cultural history? What are the advantages and difficulties in implementing this type of teaching organization? The research objectives were: to investigate and analyze the application of the methodology proposed by Davydov for learning the aesthetics concept; organize the teaching of visual arts to a class of 3rd year of high school in order teach the aesthetics concept, identifying the advantages and difficulties of implementing Davydov s proposal considering the context of a public High School. The survey consisted on the implementation and monitoring of an didactic training experiment. Data were collected through an observation of teachers and students activities during the execution of the teaching experiment, with reference on the teaching plan developed from the perspective of cultural historical theory. Besides the observation of classes, we used semi-structured interview with the teacher of the class, document analysis and focus groups with students. The research subjects were the art teacher and students from the 3rd class in high school. In the development of the experiment were systematically evaluated the effects of teaching procedures carried out in the promotion and expansion of the students mental processes, especially the ownership / internalization of concepts, the mental domain actions that correspond to it, the development of logical thought procedures and the ability to apply more general concepts to particular situations. The results point to the real possibility of using the methodology of teaching art that, based on content, values the students intellectual capacities formation. The main contribution of this research was to show what is possible in developmental teaching, that students learn more effectively in the arts content, particularly as regards the formation concepts, but the teacher must attend to the contradictions that surround her achievement. It is believed that their results are also useful to all who care about the issue of teaching art.