As artes visuais na escola: um estudo sobre as práticas pedagógicas dos professores de um Centro de Educação Infantil – CEI do município de Fortaleza.

Abstract

This research deals with the art education in the early childhood. It is the result of days of concerns and questions that were awakened during the course and my professional practice. The question to be addressed is the methodological question, “How the visual art education in early childhood is performed by the teachers' perception?". Such question plays a vital role to be addressed in Early Childhood Center the Fortaleza city. This study was conducted within a public school in order to understand teachers' perception about the work done with visual arts. Therefore, the main contributions were given by the teachers of an Early Childhood Center in Fortaleza from September and October of 2014. The proposed methodology was verified by a field work through a questionnaire and the observation of art classes. Furthermore, a reflective analysis starts from the point of view of several authors’ e.g. Barbosa (1991) and (2003), Duarte (1991), Ferraz (2009), Fusari and Ferraz (1993), Fulghum (1988), Iavelberg (2003), Kramer (1993 ) and Lowenfeld (1977) which, among other questions, have contributed to understand the art education in the child development. In this context, the teachers’ visual arts know how, perception, evaluation in the school, play a vital role for the early childhood education. Moreover, these visual art activities can be analyzed and weighted. This research is important as something with a reflective and provocative look to seek in the reality how the visual arts have been worked by teachers in the classroom. Finally, the reality has shownthe difference "speaking and doing" by part of the teachers during the visual art education.