O papel do professor: um experimento de transmissão a partir do desejo

Abstract

This work comes from my experience as a teacher of Arts in the Brazilian public education. In my journey, I could experience a series of educational experiences that awoke me to the urgency of discussing the teacher's role in student learning, adding to it all the discomforts and (im) possibilities that can happening in this trajectory. The question that conduct this search is: what is the role of the teacher in the wake of the student's desire for knowledge? The path chosen for this journey are the writings of Freud and studies by other authors who contemplate the similarities between education and psychoanalysis. The first step that led the walk of this research was an experiment done in my classroom. In this "experimentation", I sought to promote a change in my position as a teacher in the hope that this change could infect my students and result in a change to their interest in class. However, I considered this experiment a failure from the point of view of the expected results, but a hit from another standpoint, because it allowed me to reflect more deeply about my possibilities and impossibilities as a teacher. This study reinforces the importance of transferring authority and the educational relationship but highlights in particular the desire as the catalyst for everything that happening, that invents and reinvents, and enables this (and any) walk.