Experience and aesthetic education: senses and epiphanies of children´s soirée into the federal university of bahia

Abstract

The research refers to the integration of developed actions since the children´s soirée: Every Child is a poem. This soirée configures in diversifies spaces/times of appreciation and artistic production, permeated for corporal and sensitive experiences between undergraduate students from UFBA and children from public schools. We try to investigate which senses would be produced by the undergraduate students since the experience of Children´s soirée, so that they reflected on the formative processes from the experience with the children. Theoretical foundation was constructed since the studies of Jacques Rancière (2005), about the sharing of sensitive and the knowledge, thinking and feeling integration; contributions of Friedrich Schiller (2002) about aesthetic education that allow us a passing-trough from the passive mood of sensitiveness to active mood of thinking. The studies of Carbonell (2012) about the binomial “experience-aesthetic” related with the sensitiveness exercise; and, from the contributions of Maffesoli (2008) about sensitiveness and reason. Methodologically, the principles of participant research allow that the participants were capable to see their selves as active agents in the research, producing knowledge and intervening artistically in the reality. Two categories conducted the analysis: 1. The produced senses about the soirée experience; 2. The aesthetical stamp experience, senses and reflections in the formation. We conclude that a few undergraduates had lived experiences aesthetical-sensitive through the undergraduate program. Another arisen aspect was the distancing of undergraduate teacher training programs from the studies about childhood. The Children´s soirée showed to be a rich moment of formation, where it was possible to live, to think, to give sense and make autonomous inferences in the formative paths.