Artes visuais & fotografia digital: a construção de novos significados no contexto escolar

Abstract

This work addresses digital photography as a language in Visual Arts. Understood as a subjective expression of the visible world, it is a language to be interpreted, capable of revealing beyond what can be seen in the foreground. And it is through education that a more critical look at the multiple images produced with new technologies is made possible, which, increasingly more forcefully, are present in culture. The extrapolation to scientific concepts and fields of knowledge seems to announce the artistic of / in the image and the fascination that it plays with great insight. Developed with elementary school students, in a public school in Contagem / MG, it sought to appropriate a technological resource present in everyday life, but still far from pedagogical practices - the cell phone. In search of a broad education, which requires permanent discussion and problematization, it motivated students to produce images of the school environment, with the aim of reframing this institution that, in the process of building knowledge, marks trajectories, positively or negatively. It is believed that methodologies that allow space to express themselves and become increasingly aware of their position, among other possible ones, can contribute to the formation of critical citizens. It was plausible, through photographs, to lead the student to reflect on his participation in his own training path. Through dialogue open to experimentation and creation, permeated by constant thinking about what is taking place, it is possible to enhance knowledge and organize one's own perceptions and readings of the world, in constant development.