Visual narratives and teacher training: exercising looks

Abstract

This text is the result of shared experiences with graduates of Pedagogy of the Federal University of Uberlândia - School of Integrated Sciences Pontal: FACIP / UFU, teaching the subjective construction of knowledge in History and addressing issues and methodologies about teaching history through film narratives, and literary imagery. In this, I discuss, in particular, an activity of perception and sensitivity done with the aim of providing training to students in an understanding of the interconnectedness of literary and filmic narratives inserted in a context of meanings and intentions that need to be uncovered. Thus we chose to promote the interchange of different narratives about the same topic in order to awaken in students the necessity of exercising the view on the narratives whether literary, visual or images of artwork. Accordingly, we took the novel Girl with Earring Pearls, the film based on the literary work of the same name, and also analyzing the painting that gives name to the book and the movie. The plot takes place in the Netherlands, century XVII, and tells the story of a peasant girl who struggled financially, will work in the Johannes Vermeer’s house, a renowned painter of his time, and she learns to exercise look and see beyond what the eyes see.