DIDACTIC AND ANTI-RACIST EDUCATION: CONTRIBUTIONS OF TEACHING CURATORS TO LAW APPLICATION 10639/03

Abstract

We problematize the concept of curatorship, imported from the world of arts to the field of education, presenting some possibilities for teachers to act as promoters of artistic-cultural mediations. We chose cinema as a field of reflection for the teaching curatorship, since it is a complex media and a hybrid language with recurrent access and use in the school environment. The central idea corresponds to a counterpoint, operated through the school, to the films that are normally circulated and consumed by students. Offering audiovisuals rarely made available by the mass industry is the role of the school institution, considering that such works have critical-reflective power to approach the various knowledge that are dealt with in these environments and whose grammars need to be learned. We chose to discuss, specifically, the history of slavery, the resistance and its consequences, since colonial Brazil, through the audiovisual The Last Abolition, built beyond the mass industry circuit, due to its aesthetic and narrative depth, which are important mediating elements for access to curricular knowledge. This research works in defense of the role of basic education professionals as curators of artistic knowledge, especially of audiovisual language, as we understand that they can be agents of the expansion of the students' artistic-cultural repertoire.