Abstract
This article presents part of the results of an investigation intended to explore Brazilian university students’ conceptions of learning artistic drawing, within the framework of phenomenography. Amongst other dimensions, a group of 16 students of Mathematics, Biological sciences and Humanities from a free course on drawing were questioned on the basis of a semi-structured interview about their conceptions of factors, functions, and problems of learning artistic drawing. The answers to the interviews were submitted to a thematic content analysis, which involved three phases: segmentation of responses into units to be categorized, development and application of a system of categories of analysis, and exploration of the categories found. The results show a wide differentiation of representations regarding factors of learning drawing (affective, cognitive, experiential, problematic, undifferentiated personal and contextual), its functions (artistic development, professionalization, affective, cognitive and interpersonal) and its problems (structural, experiential, affective, cognitive, interpersonal, and contextual). These representations are interpreted and presented in this paper as useful tools to understand and improve successful and quality learning in the field of artistic drawing.
Learning; Evaluation; Conceptions; Artistic drawing; Phenomenography