Aesthetic Education and Image Reading Mediation: A Study with Children ¹, ^{2 3}

Abstract

This study seeks to reflect on the relationship between the image reading mediation and aesthetic education, whose methodology is the Art-Based Educational Research (PEBA). We collected data in a mediation encounter between 6 and 7-year-old children with artist Marcelo Urizar. We based the study is based on Martins’ discussions on cultural mediation; Duarte and Schiller on aesthetic education; and Heidegger and Larrosa on the concept of experience. Among some perceptions, we understand that, when mediation is dialogical, proposing aesthetic nutrition and fruition, the possibilities of aesthetic education and resignification for the subject are amplified.

Keywords
Aesthetic education; Cultural mediation; Image reading; Experience; Perception