Art and cultural activism of women in Visual Arts teacher training: critical education and confronting contemporary forms of oppression

educação crítica e enfrentamento as formas de opressão contemporâneas

Abstract

The article presents how the artistic productions of women and feminists announce social confrontations and new knowledge for the training of Visual Arts teachers. Such manifestations can be perceived as cultural pedagogies that produce social interpretations and visions in the struggle for rights and against the patriarchal/neoliberal scenario. It is worth mentioning that, with the advent of the pandemic, visual artists occupied the internet with their visualities, in order to promote a kind of cyberactivism. Thus, we seek to investigate how the artistic activism of these women is essential for the critical training of teachers. The applied method consists of the pedagogical and visual analysis of the artistic productions of these women, through studies of visual culture. Therefore, we will investigate how such visualities are converted into pedagogical knowledge in facing contemporary oppressions. We believe that, in the Brazilian context, where patriarchy and oppression are latent, it is necessary to invest in feminist methodologies that enable the critical training of teachers.