Leitura de imagens e obras de artes visuais: educação e gênero

Abstract

This research consists in discussing the process and the application of a political-pedagogical intervention that promotes reflections about gender discourses in school from drawings, paintings and art reinterpretations created by 7 th and 8 th grade students on visual arts classes at the Escola Municipal de Ensino Fundamental Professor Hugo Moura, located on Padre Zé in João Pessoa/PB. Using art works by Brazilian feminist women, that make their art a critic expression about gender inequality, this discussion is brought to the classroom by the Triangular Approach of Ana Mae Barbosa, which leads us to interpreting art through the triangulation: get to know, contextualize and create. Thus, we can instigate the students to think about gender inequality and discrimination, especially the prejudices and violence generated by gender roles, considering, in addition to the triangulation, the development and exposition of the students’ art works, shared on digital media (Instagram), as a result of this teaching methodology. The gender discourses are contextualized in Brazil, in education and in Visual Arts. The classes and the process of artistic creation are reported to contemplate the teaching practice itself and to perceive the process as a political-pedagogical intervention. Concomitantly, we consider the gender discourses regarding the exposition and reflect about the produced works’ expressiveness about gender inequality. Art is used as a learning tool to discuss gender issues. The intent of this qualitative research is to contribute with the growth of conscious and critical beings, able to acknowledge their roles in the world as active people who can think and transform what surrounds them, and emphasize the schools’ crucial role in the confrontation of gender issues.