Gender and Art Education: Challenges, Pitfalls, Resistances

Abstract

This paper originates from a concern raised by the lack of academic research articulating gender studies and art education. To rub and problematize the silence that surround this theme, we made three movements. We begin by contextualizing some impasses that have repeatedly removed the gender discussion of Art, as a school discipline; next, we analyze some papers – available in the annals of two important events in the area of art and education – that deal with the theme; in this analysis, we use the concepts of gender, power and resistance, seized from authors linked to poststructuralism, aiming to point out some of the challenges posed by these papers. In the last movement, we outline some feminist interventions, allowing such discussions to proliferate in the teaching of art.

Keywords

• estudos de gênero
• ensino de artes visuais
• feminismos