Arte e cultura no contexto da educação profissional e tecnológica: uma análise das ações culturais e artísticas em Açailândia (MA)

Abstract

After the implementation of the InstitutosFederais in all Brazilian territory the actions linked to the tutorship, research and extension have given a new profile to the professional and technological education in the country. In Maranhão this fact was evidenced in different ways, through either the expansion andinternalization or in the qualified educational and cultural service deliver, especially in the area of knowledge in arts, that has developed a proactive, collaborationist and interdisciplinary role with the subjects, institutions and communities. In this context, the old professionalizing school has abandoned the vocation aiming former machine-men, for opening possibilities for a more humanistic education, in which the art/education professionals, supported by the students, teachers and the others cultural agents, has been giving an important contribution that became noticeable through diverse practices. The description of this scenario synthesize the main results got by this research, that was developed between 2013 and 2015, in Açailância Campus, IFMA, with the following aims: verifying the way the pedagogical actions in arts allows changes in the school context of the integrated education, linking the tutorship to the research and extension; analyzing the pedagogical processes and cultural and artistic events that contribute to this educative construction; and analyzing the way the educative action in arts collaborated for the occurrence of this social, educational and cultural change in the Integrated Elementary Education within that town. The theoretical-methodological purpose which has interdisciplinary origin was based in the conceptions more iterant of the art/education , cultural action and cultural studies, predicting an organization mediated by the research action and others complementary methodological procedures. It was verified that during the research the creation of the Study and Research Group in Art in the Açailândia Campus of IFMA, coordinated by the teacher and author of this research was relevant, which has organized artistic events linked to the tutorship, research and extension.