O ensino formal de artes na educação básica em Fortaleza – CE: da necessidade de um mapeamento

Abstract

The following essay is a brief analysis based on empirical data regarding regular schools in the city of Fortaleza - Ceará. The objective is justify the need for mapping the current situation in public schools in order to obtain specific knowledge about the local context and thereafter propose research and interventions to improve the arts' licentiateship program, as well as bring changes to the municipal scene. Actions were taken by the Federal University of Ceará, specifically by the Dance Teaching Program (PIBID) and its intervention named "Timeline: Arts training experiences". It was possible to diagnose a precarious condition and the perpetuation of practices which are still based on activities that arise from Artistic Education, as well as the presence of professionals from other fields in charge of teaching positions in Arts. Besides the precarious Teaching training, problems from the formal teaching of Arts in elementary schools of the city come mostly as a consequence of a historical lag in the creation of most of the Arts licentiateship training programs , which don't supply the current demand, explains the negligence towards the field and the incorrect practices that perpetuate Arts as a leisure or filler activity, or yet, irrelevant field of study that can be presented without care by any professional without specific training: a field to acknowledge, cultivate, and slowly transform.