“Quilt”, aesthetic experience and autobiographical narrative: future teachers and the art of listening

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to analyze “Quilt”, a formative and investigative device, methodology, and epistemology developed by Berkenbrock-Rosito and used since 2001. In this study, we present Quilt, a device intended to contribute to teacher education through the production of written, pictorial, and oral (auto)biographical narratives, in the Pedagogy Course of a university private area on the east side of the city of São Paulo. The methodology included a contextual questionnaire featuring questions on what “Quilt” participants liked and did not like about the experience. Data shows that “Quilt” can be considered a valuable methodology to listen to subjects, which postulates the existence of an aesthetic dimension in the constitution of one’s teaching identity.

Keywords

• quilt
• aesthetic experience
• teacher education