PEDAGOGICAL MANDALAS IN TEACHING-LEARNING PROCESS: KNOWLEDGE AND FLAVORS IN TEACHING TRAINING

Abstract

This article intends to consider about the contributions of teaching methodologies and strategies to teacher education. It aims to reveal the experiences regarding the use of a teaching technique and its flexibility in pedagogical practice and in the process of teacher training. We also seek to know the influence and collaboration of this technique that we call pedagogical mandalas. It was used in both initial and continuing training, both in teaching and in research aiming at the (re)construction of plural knowledge and learning. We found that, as a pedagogical strategy, pedagogical mandalas are raising dialogues, contributing to overcome the simple reproduction of content and showed themselves as being able, mainly, to explore the artistic and aesthetic dimensions. In this context, the professional dimensions were explored to compose the daily life of training spaces and formative process.