Little savages undergoing domestication
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This article is a reflection around the perception which contrasts childhood and adulthood. It compares the qualities which make childhood savage and observes the domestication process that adult trainers exercise over the children, while it invites to speculate on the role of the teacher and to question the practices stipulated at this level of training. The article proposes the figure of the educator-mediator so that the Arts subject is not reduced to the development of motor skills, but rather explores and expands the possibilities for childhood to be a space that allows imagination, the development of creativity and critical thinking in visual culture. The relevance of the visual arts class in a preschool education level is addressed in order to discuss the role of this subject in a hierarchical system by disciplines considered as priorities, questioning criteria that establish expectations and evaluations in an indeterminate and subjective field, such as art. The text links narratives that interweave and open up four reflections. These expose considerations around the prioritization of spaces of control and care over learning, the vindication of creativity as a capacity allied to transdisciplinarity, the rediscovery of childhood and the awareness of the adult role in teaching and the need for the arts to be a disruptive space with the voracious curiosity and capacity for wonder inherent to childhood.
visual culture, creativity, art education, childhoodcultural visual, creatividad, educación artística, infanciacultura visual, criatividade, educação artística, infância
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