"Arte é para todos": a cidade de Sumé/PB e o ensino de arte na EJA.

Abstract

This study aims to investigate how the art teaching for the EJA (Education for the Youth and Adults) is developed in a public school in the municipality of Sumé –PB, whose focus of study is the teaching / learning process in art conducted by the teacher. The developed research was in a class of 1st year of high school EJA, having as research collaborator, an art teacher and her students. The qualitative study has a theoretical basis underpinned by theorists like Paulo Freire, Ana Mae Barbosa, Buoro, Rosa Iavelberg, Fusari and Ferraz, among others, who defend a liberating education for all, and teaching art as a key tool in the effective social cognitive growth process. The research has included a field survey "in loco" to identify, through the collection of data, resources, methodologies, concepts and teaching practices addressed in art classes to understand how the art of teaching is conceived in the Education for the Youth and Adults. The tools used for data collection were class observations, questionnaire application (open and closed questions), with the teacher responsible for the art subject in this class, with guiding questions about profile, experiments with art and the teacher’s role in the classroom, we have also applied questionnaire with students of the investigated group, with issues related to the teaching / learning concepts and meanings that art class awakes, and knowledge acquired in the art area. We have analyzed school documents, textbooks and activities proposed by the teacher and the images and activities produced by students in the classroom. The study shows the students’ interests in culture teaching, especially the local one, the teacher’s challenges without specific training in developing art teaching for such a specific public.