Cultura visual, cultura digital e a arte/educação

Abstract

This course conclusion work aimed to identify students' responses and reflections on the impacts on the use of media and technologies in visual arts classes, as well as trying to understand how visual culture and digital culture manifested in the context of students in a class of High School in a school in Caxias do Sul. The methodological proposal used to account for the objectives emerges from the internship experience of the author of this TCC, carried out in the first semester of 2021. This study aims to understand the importance of teaching visual arts that take into account the contemporaneity and its impacts, making it necessary to address the culture in which students are inserted, a culture that is largely based on digital technologies. For this, it was also necessary to understand how digital technologies are present in schools. The study conceptualizes culture in a broad way, approaching the historicity of the word, based on Antonio Gramsci's thought. The second moment is dedicated to digital culture, characterizing it according to Castells. The third moment is dedicated to organizing curricula focused on the present through visual culture. Fernando Hernandez, with his studies, contributes to the dialogue about "critical visual literacy" and the interests of today's students. In the fourth moment, the focus is on the inseparability between contemporaneity and visual culture, according to ideas by Hernández and contributions by Eloiza Gurgel Pires. The fourth chapter addresses the contemporary teaching of Art/Education, based on the studies of Ana Mae Barbosa. Finally, with theoretical input from Kerry Freedman, Christine Ballenge-Morris, Vesta Daniel and Patricia Stuhr who help to reflect on non-academic knowledge within the school environment, highlighting multiculturalism and intercultural territory, examples are presented of how visual culture and digital culture reverberate in the Visual Arts classes. To this end, materials produced during the pandemic are used by first-year high school students at the Evaristo de Antoni school, in Caxias do Sul, during the classes of Stage III, of the Licentiate Course in Visual Arts at the University of Caxias do Sul. [resumo fornecido pelo autor]