Art and aesthetics in education: an account of the experience of sensitive education

Abstract

This report emerges from the experience of a thematic seminar developed in the discipline of Art and Aesthetics in Education of the Graduate Program in Education, Master’s in Education of the Regional University of Blumenau/Santa Catarina, Brazil. The proposal elaborated as part of the activities of the curricular component of the discipline was organized by the academics and guided by the professor who teaches the discipline. The purpose of the seminar was to awaken the senses and to reflect on the role of the teacher as a provocateur of the senses. The seminar was attended by 17 students, who are also teachers from different areas, enrolled in the discipline of Art and Aesthetics in Education. The activities had as theoretical basis Duarte Júnior (2000) and happened in five moments: the anesthesia in which we live: critical analysis of the daily life; reconnecting nature; concealing the sight and awakening the touch; awakening the sensitive; and reflections. The experience promoted by the thematic seminar contributed significantly to the reflection on the current life, and how numb we are, to the (re)discovery of the senses and the sensitive education. As the academics who participated in the seminar are also teachers, they were provoked by the mediators to promote moments of sensitive education with their students. In view of this, we expect a resonance of the proposed activities beyond the moment of the seminar.