Abstract

SILVA, Ana Maria Garcia Nolasco da; BARRIOS, Jorge Manuel Garrido  and  SANTOS, Kátia Couto de Sá Sabino dos. Critical Thinking Development: Gender Issues in the Context of Arts Training in Higher Education. Revista Convergências [online]. 2023, vol.16, n.31, pp.85-96.  Epub May 31, 2023. ISSN 2184-0180.  https://doi.org/10.53681/c1514225187514391s.31.177.

This study aims to analyze the development of critical thinking on gender issues in the context of higher education training, taking as a case study the work proposal "Gender(s)" which aimed to carry out a transdisciplinary project articulated between the Curricular Units of Workshop of Arts, Technologies and Multimedia IV (OATM IV) - Sculpture and Multimedia Art modules - and Art Theory, of the 2nd semester of the academic year 2019/2020, promoting reflection on the issue of Gender and critical thinking of undergraduate students in Visual Arts and Technologies of the School of Education of the Polytechnic of Lisbon. The aim of this project is to promote reflection on the gender issue and critical thinking among undergraduate Visual Arts and Technologies students at the School of Education of the Polytechnic of Lisbon.During the process, teachers assumed the role of facilitators, creating a space free of censorship, finding that students mobilized and developed critical thinking, in processes of investigation and artistic creation around gender stereotypes. The imagination of different gender possibilities led to a reflection about values as cultural constructions and to the awareness of each one's agency to reinvent them and contribute to social change. In this way, we consider that artistic production and/or interpretation of art works stimulate autonomous thinking, capable of dealing with new situations, through the projection of several alternative hypotheses. We conclude, therefore, that art education is a privileged space to stimulate the development of critical thinking, without resorting to preconceived ideas, being, therefore, potentially able to combat class, culture or gender stereotypes and, in this way, contribute to the creation of values that guide a socially fair action.

Keywords : gender; critical thinking; arts education; aesthetic and creative questioning.

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