Art thinking e aprendizagem criativa: ensino de artes visuais e o “jardim de infância para a vida toda”

Abstract

Taking Art Thinking in a broad sense, as an approach that takes the artist's way of thinking to other areas or dimensions of life (including basic education and the corporate universe), Creative Learning and its motto of “lifelong kindergarten” come together in the sense of enhancing the teaching of visual arts. In addition to the necessary (and sufficient in itself) artistic development of students, it is possible that the consequent perceptive, reflective, critical and creative developments also contribute to practical applications, both in basic education itself in transversality with other disciplines and in future professional activities. In this sense, and based on a case of training educators in Creative Learning and another of application of Art Thinking tools in a corporate university, this study aims to analyze the teaching of visual arts to identify intersections that contribute to creativity and innovation, or to the “lifelong kindergarten”.