Constituição de saberes e práticas docentes em e sobre um grupo de professores de arte

Abstract

Knowledge and educational practices have several origins, among which we can find a teachers' meeting in a group of studies. The objectives of the present research were to know the characteristics, functions and working ways (individual and collective) that are present in the group of teachers of Art of Uberlândia Municipal Teaching; which are the knowledge of the group concerning itself; the way the group thinks, speaks, feels and acts in relation to itself and to its members; which are the meanings and senses that these teachers produce in relation to their participation in the group. To reach such a goal a two-year participant observation was accomplished with the referred group. Field notes, audio recordings of the meetings, documental analyses and a collective interview were also used. Those strategies were based on and analyzed according to the theoretical referential of several authors that discuss the teacher's continuing education and their specific knowledge, the relevance and the characterization of small social groups and the development of the research in the light of the Qualitative Approach. In this investigation we produced some indicators that characterize the Group of Teachers of Art, presenting analyses of the different configurations and dynamics, as well as of the frequency and participations of its members. We point the (re)elaboration and (re)significance of the ideas, experiences and knowledge of the teachers of Art in their educational work, even in the visibility of some plastic-visual productions.