Arts and Education

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Teaching Methods

Content development will include both theoretical and empirical approaches. Lectures will be complemented with the contributions of experts and of students' work outcomes (reports and essays). Practical activities will be supported by diverse materials and observation visits. Case study is a main strategy, which permits a reflexive analysis of programs and practices.

Learning Outcomes

This curricular unit aims to bring awareness of the educational value of Art, as well as of some main questions emerging from the theoretical ground and from the practices in this field, attending to diverse grounding, aims, agents, publics, contexts and methodologies.

Thus, the main general objectives are:

- To understand the educational value of Art and its potential to contribute to individual and collective development;

- To explore perspectives and models in the field of Arts and Education;

- To critically analyse some educational programs and practices in this field.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

I - The educational value of Art

Intrinsic vs instrumental value.

Potential contributions to individual and collective development.

II - Perspectives and models in the field of Education and Art

Theoretical ground, conceptual clarification, illustration.

III - Programs and practices in the field of Education and Art

The diverse aims, agents, publics, contexts and methodologies.

Case studies.

IV - The aesthetics and artistic education in the Portuguese educational system.

Head Lecturer(s)

Maria Augusta Vilalobos Filipe Pereira Nascimento

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Synthesis work: 20.0%
Laboratory work or Field work: 30.0%
Report of a seminar or field trip: 50.0%

Bibliography

Barbosa, A.M.; Rejane, G. (2008). Arte-Educação como mediação cultural e social. S.P.: UNESP.

Best, D. (1992). A racionalidade do sentimento. O papel das artes na educação. Lisboa: Asa.

Caetano, A. P.; Carvalho, C.; Paz, A.; Freire, I. (2020). Processos participativos e artísticos em contextos de diversidade. Lisboa: Edições Colibri.

Frois, J.P. (2011). Educação estética e artística. Abordagens transdisciplinares. Lisboa: FCG.

Iavelberg, R. (2003). Para gostar de aprender Arte. Sala de aula e formação de professores. Porto Alegre: Artmed.

Jiménez, L.; Aguirre, I.; Pimentel, L. G. (2009) (eds.). Educación artística, cultura y ciudadanía. Madrid: OEI/Santillana.

Quintana Cabanas, J.M (1993). Pedagogía estética. Madrid: Dykinson.

Read, H. (2016). Educação pela Arte. Lisboa: Edições 70.

Santos, A. da S. (1999). Estudos de psicopedagogia e arte. Lisboa: Livros Horizonte.

Sousa, A. (2003). Educação pela arte e artes na educação. Bases psicopedógicas. Lisboa: Instituto Piaget.