Sobre aquilo que é um salto no escuro: autorrepresentações e a imagem em movimento no ensino artístico profissionalizante

Abstract

This report analyses an internship undertaken at Escola Artística e Profissional Árvore as part of the Master's degree in Teaching Visual Arts, focusing on the research, design, implementation and analysis of a didactic unit on self-representation and animation. Building on the tension between the technical demands of vocational arts education and the need to preserve spaces for subjective construction, the proposal "Self-representations in Motion: From the Present to the Imagined" utilised an optical device, the phenakistoscope, alongside drawing processes, animation techniques and written reflection to explore the relationship between identity, image and decision-making, with the aim of fostering reflection on self-image, encourage student autonomy and value the creative process as a pedagogical dimension. Data collection relied on questionnaires administered before and after the didactic unit, student's written reflections and on field notes produced in the context of participant observation. The results reveal varying degrees of engagement, suggesting that the project encouraged students to reformulate ideas, manage technical constraints and problematise the construction of the self as a process, albeit with differing levels of engagement. Simultaneously, the internship deepened the understanding of teaching as a relational, situated and constantly evolving practice.