Thirteenth International Conference on The Arts in Society

Abstract

In view of the absence of a parameter for the inclusion of the Visual Impairment students in the Art classes in Brazil, this study proposed to demonstrate how the Visual Arts teaching can be adapted to the non-visual student in Basic Education. Considering the basis that Art is linked to human feelings, many people believe that a student who cannot see is excluded from what refers to visual poetics. Departing from the inclusive proposal of the exhibition “Sentir pra Ver (feel to see)” - São Paulo 2015, which presented adapted paintings to the non-visual public, we defend, inspired by this initiative, a teaching proposal including the creation of tactile planks as well as synesthesia (a phenomenon that provokes multisensory reactions, mixing more than one sense in front of an analysis object ) that is able to provide to visually impaired students the possibility of appreciating paintings in the Art classes. With the method of tactile-synaesthetic teaching created, we started to check its effectiveness alongside non-visual students of Basic Education, attesting its efficiency and legitimating the guarantee of a meaningful and inclusive learning of these pupils in the Art classes.