Constructions of meaning from life experience. Possible relationships in the transit of a research project in art education

Abstract

In this text are reflected: constructions, relationships and tensions that are present in the classrooms (discourses, theories, practices, knowledge) of the Master of Arts Education at the Universidad Nacional in Colombia, focusing on the experience, both educational and artistic, of a group of university professors of arts. In this article, ways to narrate the experience of the professors are put in relation with their professional formation and with the context in which each one develops their profession (school, university, informal surroundings), in turn challenging the writer of this text. The text focuses on actions and reflections set in the midst of the research, which make visible the tensions that are dealt with daily by those of us who live between art and education. This points out relevant issues in the discussion of research in arts education in our context, having as a starting point some  understandings  of  the  pedagogic and  some  transits  between  the  teaching of arts and arts education. Methodological commitment  is  made  from the  narrative research that, for the specific case, articulates biographical,  ethnographic  and  visual elements as a hybrid strategy for assuming ourselves as researchers and contributing to the discussions that consider art as a field of knowledge.