Author(s): Costa, Rui ; Campos, Susana ; Maia, Pedro Bandeira
Date: 2025
Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10773/44748
Origin: RIA - Repositório Institucional da Universidade de Aveiro
Subject(s): Higher education in design; Teacher-generated drawing; Teaching strategy; Theory through art; Theory through drawing
The aim of this article is to explore the potential of the use of works of art in the context of Teacher-Generated Drawing Strategy. Teacher-Generated Drawing Strategy for theory instruction has not been widely researched. We have been exploring and developing this strategy, documenting it to understand its limits and possibilities, as part of ongoing doctoral research. We present an essay in which we test the use of works of art as an experience in the classroom, evaluating whether they can be a pillar based on communication with the class, and consequently part of the strategy. In this way, communication with a class was conducted through the drawing of two famous paintings: “The Starry Night” by Van Goghs and the “Scream” by Munch to evaluate the knowledge transfer they provide. At the end of the session, we collected the students’ anonymous answers on the strategy evaluation questionnaire. The conclusion of this paper makes it clear that the inclusion of art in Teacher-Generated Drawing Strategy promotes better communication in the classroom, especially in the digital age, and that the use of art in knowledge transfer enhances students’ emotions and motivation and further supports classroom interactions and the materialization of abstract concepts.
