Arte em cena: narrativas de uma experiência formativa com arte espírita

Abstract

Contemporary society lacks more and more initiatives that provide truly formative experiences. Experiences that can develop the various dimensions of the human, in favor of a comprehensive formation. The Spiritist Doctrine brings objective proposals in this sense, regarding not only the development of man as social being, but in its various aspects of incarnate spirit in a constant process of self-education. The Spiritist Movement arises from the everyday practices of this Doctrine, which is not characterized only as a religion, but as a set of principles, values and scientific and philosophical knowledge. Taking into consideration that the Spiritist Doctrine makes the individual open to a series of new looks at himself and at the world, the Spiritist Art springs from the need to work on and express the difficulties and the learning experienced and built up from the practices of Spiritism. Based on the fundamentals of the auto/biographical research (JOSSO, 2010; DELORY-MOMBERGER, 2008), we used the methodological procedure called Biographical Reflective Circle-BRC (OLINDA, 2009; 2010) to build the educational biographies (DOMINICÉ, 1988) of seven youngsters who participated in the group Arte Em Cena (Art On Scene) of Paulo e Estevão Mocidade Espírita (Paulo and Estevão Spiritist Youth), in Fortaleza, in the period from 2000 to 2011. The objective of this work is to comprehend the meaning of the Spiritist Art in the youth formation, evaluating its role in the production of knowledge and meaning for life. The material produced in the BRC was treated following the guidelines of discursive textual analysis (MORAES, 2003) so we could get to the production of knowledge and to the experiential learning. The Spiritist Art provided these youngsters with a wide-range formative experience in which the friendships, the difficulties, the memories, the feeling of family, the discovery of youth, the smiles, the tears, the roots, the challenges, the overcoming, the way, the stage, the joy, the work, are just examples of the precious marks of an experience that changed their lives in a way that only their own narratives can express and represent.