Cultura maker na educação e sua possível integração com a expressão gráfica

Abstract

The current growth of the Maker Culture theme in an educational context is notorious, therefore, this research aims to discuss the state of the art and its implications on the Maker Culture approach in Education, as well as its potential integration with Graphic Expression. Understanding that humans are cultural beings (LARAIA, 2001) and that making is an intrinsic capability to their development (OSTROWER, 1989), where practices of making and the production of material culture are transmitted through socialization, experimentation, and primarily education. Recognizing that the educational act is present in the cultural process and that it contributes to its eventual transformations, we begin by identifying the growing relevance of the Maker theme in Education, for which we previously examined its pedagogical antecedents. Using an analysis of this approach in the public education system of the city of Rio de Janeiro, based on field research in the Technological Educational Centers (or “GETs” a portuguese acronym). Starting from the experience of drawing in the GETs as a preliminary skill in project development, we understand that the graphic education area has the potential for elaborating creative processes, communicating ideas, problem-solving, and invention, all important educational practices in the dynamics of "learning by doing", encouraging student protagonism and autonomy. We emphasize the importance of the professional competencies of the graphic educator in constructing autonomous knowledge for project development, knowledge cultivated since childhood in various forms of Graphic Expression. From there, it was possible to envision a potential and promising integration of the Maker with this field of knowledge, investigating through a brief curricular analysis of Teacher Training in Graphic Expression, examining contributions to the construction of artifacts and the development of projects existing in the Maker approach.