Banca de DEFESA: GUSTAVO HENRIQUE LIRA DA SILVA

Art Education of the Terreiro: reflections on the educational processes of the artistic works of the Roça Oxaguiã Oxum Ipondá

Art Education of Yard. Countercoloniality. Collective Creativity.

This dissertation aims to describe and interpret the phenomena surrounding Art Education in a Terreiro of African Matrix in Pernambuco. It is the result of aspirations and concerns related to this important area of knowledge, which is still little known by academic studies. Using Roça Oxaguiã Oxum Ipondá as the research field, this dissertation primarily seeks to understand the phenomena of Art Education experienced in this sacred space through its artistic and formative processes—around the knowledge and practices of the Terreiro's artistic/craftwork—that bring counter-colonial perspectives through the exercise of interculturality supported by a "circular formative model," which significantly differs from the processes of Western Art Education. To achieve this, we employed the ethnographic method as the central research methodology, using participant observation, field experiences, and semi-structured interviews as the main data collection tools, which were hermeneutically analyzed. The interpretations revolved around categories related to collective creativity, Afro-entrepreneurship, and performativities encompassing the phenomenon of the Terreiro's Art Education.