The book comes to tell some questions on the art, does not stop reduziz it definitions, but to also stimulate the thought and the quarrel, directing a look to the aesthetic one. It tries to contextualizar the art in the world where we live, considering the influence of the medias in its production, spreading and appreciation, and it searchs to define its functions in the society and the school. A boarding of the art under the aspects social, antropolgico, marketing and as knowledge source looks for to justify its place as it disciplines obligator in the school, emphasizing its importance in the life human being, entering in the Brazilian universe, and makes, first, a historical briefing of the trajectory of the education of the art in the school in century XX, in the attempt of more good understanding present moment. It presents the National Curricular Parameters for the area of Arts in the three levels of the Basic Education (infantile, basic and average education), and considers a comparative reflection of these with the practical one of the professor in classroom. It brings useful information on the after-graduation in art in Brazil, listing all the Programs in functioning.
It focuses some pedagogical trends for an education of art in the contemporaneidade, on the basis of theories that consider as essential activities the creation, the interpretation and the appreciation, and that they are worried in contextualizar it from the acquisition of the historical and social knowledge. WORDS? KEY: Education, Arts, Trend, Practical, Brazil. ABSTRACT the major focus is you stimulate discussion about the teaching methods adopted, the difficulties encountered and possible solutions than yourself, acting to teacher, you can find you make teaching it lives and lives quality..