Teacher training: art as an intercessor in the experimentation of other ways of thinking

This text reports the experience of teacher training in higher education conducted by the Graduate Program in Teaching of the Department of Pedagogy at Univates, Brazil, along the first semester of 2014. The authors consider art as an important intercessor to think about curriculum and discourses in education and teaching. The art that has been blended with the contents studied in disciplines such as Curriculum Studies and Differences and Multiplicities is the art experienced by Nietzsche, art that is immanent to life and committed neither to beauty nor to ugliness, neither to methods nor to techniques. An art that favors sensitive encounters and potentializes life. In the first section, we present the focus of this paper, i.e., two trainings that have Pedagogy as a course, and art as an intercessor. The understanding of art by authors from the field of Philosophy of Difference is developed in the second section. The third section of this paper is divided into two parts, and presents experimentations performed in each one of the curriculum trainings.