Teacher training and the teaching of visual arts from the perspective of contemporary indigenous art

Abstract

This article is the result of a Professional Master's dissertation in Arts at the State University of Santa Catarina (PROF-ARTES-UDESC), defended in 2023. The thematic focus was teacher training and art teaching in the Kaingang indigenous community of Paraná. The research problem consisted of analyzing “how does the continued training of teachers in Art offered by the State Department of Education of Paraná (SEED-PR) occur in the Kaingang Indigenous community, in the Mangueirinha Indigenous Land (PR)?” Our general objective was to: Investigate the continued training of art teachers and its consequences in the art teaching offered in Indigenous Education, in the Mangueirinha Indigenous Land, in Paraná, relating it to contemporary national indigenous artistic production. We used a qualitative methodology, which included bibliographic review and interviews. As a theoretical contribution, we have the support of the following authors: Saviani (2009, 2021), Lagrou (2013), Helm (2007, 2012), Mota (1994), among others, as well as curricular documents in the area. We obtained the following results: the continued training for Art teachers offered by the SEED-PR, which also reaches the proven community, does not include the specificities of the Kaingang indigenous context, and when there is training, it occurs in an accelerated, standardized way, in the format of Distance Education (EaD) and is aligned with the interests of neoliberalism.