Arte na escola: a experiência estética como um dos caminhos para promoção da vocação humana para o ser mais

Abstract

This research seeks to identify subsidies for leading an art course for elementary and secondary grades which promotes the human vocation to be more - a concept developed by Paulo Freire - by creating opportunities for students to go through aesthetic experiences in the classroom, and other educational paths. These subsidies were identified from the point of view of students and former students of a private school in Santo André, São Paulo, about their experiences upon the art classes they had gone though in their lives. Under the light of theories of Paulo Freire, Elliot W. Eisner, Sam Intrator, Efland, Freedman and Stuhr, Ana Mae Barbosa, John Dewey and other theorists, the students contributions from a Focus Group procedure and open written questionnaires were analyzed bearing in mind a qualitative approach. Seeking the theories that underlie the practices reported and discussed by the research subjects, this study brought up the desirable characteristics for art classes, teacher s attitude and the evaluation processs proposed by them, in promoting the inherent human vocation to "be more", fundamental condition for student s autonomy development