Abstract

ORTEGA-SALGADO, Cynthia. The Use of Conflict in Teaching the Arts. Educare [online]. 2014, vol.18, n.3, pp.221-236. ISSN 1409-4258.

Teaching the arts is currently facing interesting challenges such as the mobility and nomad state of concepts that were key to its comprehension such as the idea of art, artist and work of art, now reformulated as artistic practices, producers and production. To better understand arts education, the principle changes from modernism to postmodernism will be reviewed. The purpose of this paper is to apply one of the latter period’s most inapprehensible characteristic to education. During my eight years of experience as a university arts professor, I have confirmed that conflict is a useful source of possibilities in the learning process, triggering an open attitude towards research. Conflict is proposed as a belief destabilizing factor, as well as a generator of a state of indetermination, essential to contemplate a broad scenario in the field

Keywords : Art teaching; art learning; conflict; bachelor’s degree.

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