CONTRIBUTIONS OF CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS TO ART TEACHING IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION

a historical-cultural perspective

Abstract

This work aims to identify, from the theoretical assumptions of Historical-Cultural Theory and Historical-Critical Pedagogy, the contributions that art teaching and the approach of contemporary artists add to the development of children in Early Childhood Education. The bibliographical research, that has a investigative nature, brings together the studies of Elkonin (2017) and Leontiev (2004) in an approach that stages of child development and the main activity of each of them in early childhood with contemporary art. Firstly, the research relate the context of Early Childhood Education and art teaching from a Historical-Cultural Pedagogy perpective for the development of chilrem in early childhood and then analyze contemporary works or art and list their contributions to Early Childhood Education. It was verified that the teaching of art, especially the contemporary art in Early Childhood Education, makes contributions to the learning and development of children. The results achieved from this work highlight the importance of teachers structuring and systmatizing art teaching that goes beyond mechanized, naturalized and spontaneous activies with children, however, without falling into purely techicality. The art teaching allows children acess to historical and cultural knowledge that humanizes them, with an emphasis on the development of their higher psychic functions.