A DESNATURALIZAÇÃO DO ANDROCENTRISMO POR MEIO DE UMA PRÁTICA DE PESQUISA-AÇÃO NO ESTÁGIO DE LICENCIATURA EM ARTE-EDUCAÇÃO DA UNICENTRO

Abstract

This paper presents the results of an action-research project that was carried out with students of the undergraduate degree program of Art Education at Unicentro (Midwestern State University, Paraná, Brazil), focusing on the problem of androcentrism in the field of Art and fostering the inclusion of women artists in pedagogical practices. The current standards for the teaching of Art in middle and high-school levels (both the National Brazilian Guidelines or “PCN”, and the Recommendations for the state of Paraná or “DCEs”) cover gender themes, but androcentrism is not an explicit topic. Nevertheless, its discussion is indispensable for it to be reduced, so that a broader gender perspective is achieved in the repertoire of future teachers. I have worked from the theoretical stance of Pierre Bourdieu’s praxeologywith an emphasis on the concepts of symbolic violence, negative symbolic value, and habitus in order to analyze an action-research field notebook. Firstly, the recurrence of male and female artist names with a dominance of male artists was found as I appraised the practicum portfolios produced from 2012 through 2015. The second part of my work consisted in engaging the 2016 class in action-research, with the objective of developing more gender-representative Art teaching projects, as a result of adding curriculum contents about women artists in the Supervised Practicum course.