The art-education in middle school: challenges and faces to aesthetic formation

Abstract

The article seeks to understand and reflect, through a hermeneutic approach, the performance of the art-educator of High School in the face of the conditions of the society managed, based on the perceptions of the art teachers of the public schools of the Federal District. For this purpose a questionnaire was applied to identify the challenges of these professionals in their teaching practices, such as the few hours-classes for art classes, the incompatibility between the specific training of the art-educator in the undergraduate and his multipurpose exercise in classroom and the non-recognition of art-education work vis-à-vis peers and society. The data are discussed from the aesthetic theory of Adorno (2008) that points out the critical potentiality of art and its social commitment in contemporaneity. We believe that, from an aesthetic perspective, art in High School could be seen as a space of formation for the human spirit, in which the critical sensibility was not against science, but glimpsed as belonging to the integrality of the individual and as a form of resistance of sociocultural massification.

Keywords

• Aesthetic formation
• Art-educator
• Managed company