The ‘space’ of contemporary art in educational contexts: socio-cultural confluences and interferences

Abstract

This work investigates the way how six students attending the Visual Arts Teaching Program at the Visual Arts College of the Federal University of Goiás, understand and interrelate with contemporary art images as their teaching object. Inspired on my observations concerning the resistance to the use of these images in classrooms, this research constitutes a sample of collected data that builds a net of point of views that sometimes overcross, sometimes diverge, but, especially, reflect pedagogical, social and cultural issues naturalized in the understandings and conceptions of those future teachers. Developed through individual interviews and focal groups, this investigation is oriented by a qualitative methodological perspective which considers images, talks, silences, gestures and reactions as part of a critical and constructive analysis of narratives that dialogue with visual culture.