Vivência artística para expressividade de crianças e adolescentes em casas de acolhimento em João Pessoa - PB

Abstract

This Final Course Project aims to investigate how artistic work with visual languages can enhance the expressiveness of children and adolescents in institutional care. To meet the general objective, the following specific objectives were established: to characterize the foster homes and the possible role of educators in these institutions; to present the potential of art to serve people in vulnerable situations; to describe and qualitatively analyze the artistic experience carried out in the foster homes. The methodological approach, of a qualitative nature, followed action research, prioritizing the participants' experiences, the data collection instruments were participant observation, handwritten records of participants' speech and observations in a logbook, and in the work produced during the activities. The theoretical framework is based on the studies of Barbosa (1998), Brandão (2005), Dewey (1976; 2010), Picosque and Martins (2012). It concludes that aesthetic nourishment and the practice of artistic work with visual languages play a fundamental role in the integral development of children and/or adolescents in institutional care, as it contributes to the development of sensitivity, expressiveness, critical thinking, and the ability to attribute meaning to reality.