A escola como lugar de produzir novos amanhãs

questões para pensar o nosso tempo a partir do encontro entre arte, educação e crianças

Abstract

This text presents a series of reflections on education that emerged from a meeting between a group of students on a degree course in Visual Arts at a higher education institution in the south of the country, artistic practices and children attending elementary school, in 2023, in a public elementary school. The questions raised in the text emerged from an action aimed at building collective knowledge about the school and teaching in a practice of integrating extension into undergraduate courses. This intertwining of university and school allowed for the mobilization of elements that point to three aspects that offer clues for thinking about teaching today: the understanding that children know more about the world than we are capable of recognizing; dialogue with children as a possibility for self-affirmation; perception of the world. Based on these three elaborations, it is understood that nowadays, when the subject of education is approached, it is necessary to shift the gaze of undergraduate students in relation to the field of education, to denaturalize statements recurrently associated with educational work and, finally, the need for openness, through listening, dialogue, attention to the other so that we are able to imagine new futures, because school is a place where a future is always to come.