Pedagogical proposals for initial teacher education with cinema

the Historical-Critical Pedagogy Theory at the Federal Institute Catarinense

Abstract

This article discusses the pedagogical possibilities of cinema in schools, based on Law No. 13,006 of 2014 (Brazil, 2014), and in initial teacher education, focusing on the category of Artistic Problematization (Reche, 2022), articulated with Theoretical Foundation and Technical Instrumentalization within the framework of Dermeval Saviani’s Historical-Critical Pedagogy. To this end, its objective is to reflect upon the pedagogical possibilities of cinema in initial teacher education and, consequently, in educational practice. Drawing on a film-screening experience developed within a Pedagogy degree program at the Federal Catarinense Institute, in the context of the course Foundations and Methodologies in Arts and the extension project Lights, Camera, Education in Action, previously presented in Reche and Silva (2020), this theoretical study is grounded in the perspective that the presence of cinema in initial teacher education contributes to the development of critical and aesthetic consciousness, as well as to a deeper understanding of the social realities within which teachers act in their educational practice. In this sense, the aforementioned category unfolds into a teaching methodology. It is concluded that art constitutes a central educational strategy by integrating aesthetic experience and Theoretical Foundation, thereby promoting pedagogical practices that are more critical, contextualized, and emancipatory. This is particularly relevant given that the Federal Education Network has provided material conditions that strengthen the relationship between theory and practice and support public policies aimed at promoting national cinema in schools, policies that are still being consolidated within the Brazilian educational landscape. Such initiatives have significant implications for the education of teachers committed to social transformation and to the democratization of access to culture and the arts.