CURRICULUM:
The inclusion of artistic practice in the context of academic research raises recurrently stimulating debates
about what is - or should be - research in visual arts. Some issues have served to frame this debate: What
convergences and conflicts exist between artistic creation and research idea? How does an investigation based
on artistic practice make explicit the research process that is intrinsic to this practice? What are the functions
expected of research in art, inside and outside the University? What research methodologies are needed when
images, procedures and contexts of production are the main sources of research, but also the means by which
their results that intended to be communicated? Based on these questions, this course has as main objective
to present methodological procedures for conducting a research project based on experimental practice. It
seeks to develop an approach to the role of research in artistic practice from the context of its production,
taken as specific territory knowledge endowed with own criteria. Such an approximation is made from the
following modules: 1. Research in Art, Art and Art Research as research: the state of the question. 2. Ethical
issues in research on art. 3. Paradigms and strategies of research in art. Research poietic. 4. Formalization,
types and models of research. 5. Core standards for the collection and organization of visual and theoretical
material. 6. Preparation, presentation and collective discussion of the research project
LEARNING AIMS:
The course aims to provide doctoral students a set of tools and skills that enable them to investigate structural
and produce knowledge in the context of issues related to the arts and arts education.
It seeks to develop an approach to the role of research in the practice of art education from the context of its
production. This approach is made from the following modules:
1. Research in Art, Art and Art Research as research: the state of the question.
2. Paradigms and research strategies.
3. Formalization, types and models of research.
4. Core standards for the collection and organization of visual and theoretical material.
5. Preparation, presentation and collective discussion of the research project.
Throughout the semester will be further epistemological and methodological issues inherent in research and
construction of scientific knowledge, clearly emphasizing the paradigms and research methods that have been
privileged in the sciences of art and art education.
Combining teaching methods - expository, interrogative and demonstrative reflexiv so that the syllabus are
discussed and presented in a critical and participatory.
1. Exposing the context that surrounds research in art, highlighting and proposing some role models.
2. Understand the need to structure the methodological approach underlying a research work based on artistic
practice, favoring consistency between hypotheses and initial funding, the methodological options and clear
formalization of the results.
3. Exposure of the basic guidelines for the preparation of a research work based on experimental practice.
Learning Outcomes:
Mobilization capacity of the methods and methodological procedures appropriate to the object of study.
Ability to research, selection and analysis of information; Skills level of formalization; Clarity and
communication of a research problem, based on bibliographic and visual correctly exposed; Conceive,
in a reasoned manner, a research project appropriate to the theme / scope of work to be done in the
second yea;. Correctly use the standards for collection and organization of bibliographic material and
visual.
RESULTS OF LEARNING:
It is intended that the student is able to organize and structure a critical and consistent project of research.
WORKING CLASS: On classroom.
Considering the specific methodological procedures for research in arts, the program is approached from: (1)
lectures with use of analysis of concrete cases of research models, where you want a note participatory to
update the particular interests of each student in the content presented, (2) an experimental development,
based on a theme, make sure that rehearse and possibilities of articulating a specific practice and
methodological requirements of an academic research.
VALIDATION: With no final exam. The assessment is continuous and results from work plan.
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