Este trabalho investiga uma ação educativa em arte em espaços não formais de educação originária de uma política pública da Secretaria do Menor do Estado de São Paulo (gestão 1987 a 1994). Levantou a hipótese de que esta experiência com ensino de arte concorreu para a formação de seus profissionais e trouxe contribuições para as práticas que exercem nas instituições escolares às quais estão vinculados hoje. Configurou-se como pesquisa qualitativa e a metodologia empregada ressaltou o levantamento de dados secundários, como as publicações oficiais da época, mas também dados primários a partir de entrevistas semiestruturadas com profissionais que tiveram papel fundamental na criação, implantação e prática nos Programas de Complementação Escolar. Concluiu que esses professores realizaram uma experiência de ensinar e aprender de maneira significativa e que a concepção Arte como pesquisa, no espaço educativo indicou orientações didáticas para o trabalho em arte que enfatiza um espaço/tempo privilegiado para os menores desenvolverem ação criadora e trabalhos nas linguagens artísticas e, às equipes profissionais, a práxis educativa. A concepção Arte como pesquisa, no espaço educativo apresenta um modo de ver a arte na educação, com um projeto pedagógico em arte comprometido com a experimentação, descoberta, invenção e processos criadores das crianças, adolescentes e jovens, como também dos professores. / This paper investigates an art-centric educative action in informal venues of education, originating from a public policy created by the Secretariat of Minors of the State of São Paulo (management of 1987 to 1994). It hypothesizes that the experience with art education concurred with the development of its professionals and brought contributions to the practices of the educational institutions to which they were bound presently. It was configured as qualitative research, and the methodology applied highlighted the survey of secondary data, such as official publications of the time, but also primary data in the form of semi-structured interviews with professionals who had fundamental part in the creation, establishment and practice of the after-school Programs. The conclusion was that these professors held a teaching and learning experience in a significant way and that the concept of Art as research in the educative environment implied didactic orientations for the work in art that emphasizes a privileged space/time for minors to develop creativeness and action in artistic languages and, to the professional teams, the educative praxis. The concept of Art as research in the educative environment presents one manner in which to see art in education, like one pedagogic project in art committed with experimentation, discovery, invention and creative processes in children, adolescents and the youth, as well as with professors.

Working with an organization outside the public school system that was creating schoolyard gardens, I began to think about culture and cultivation inside and outside of schooling practices. The liveliness of the schoolyard gardens presented possibilities for enlivening educational discourses. With two participants I planted a container box schoolyard garden outside Lamoureux Hall, which houses the Faculty of Education. Utilizing aspects of place-based pedagogy, ecoliteracy, ecopedagogy and a metissage of a/r/tography, eco-art and writing as a method of inquiry, we tended the garden and dwelled upon ideas of nature, culture, and their intersection in a particular place. Our garden experiences left cyber footprints in virtual space as blog spots on a thesis blog site. The garden and the inquiry it generated outside,is brought back inside the education building as a Master's thesis. The garden grew in different and unpredictable ways due to intense construction on site, entwining the planter boxes with unseen variables.

Working with an organization outside the public school system that was creating schoolyard gardens, I began to think about culture and cultivation inside and outside of schooling practices. The liveliness of the schoolyard gardens presented possibilities for enlivening educational discourses. With two participants I planted a container box schoolyard garden outside Lamoureux Hall, which houses the Faculty of Education. Utilizing aspects of place-based pedagogy, ecoliteracy, ecopedagogy and a metissage of a/r/tography, eco-art and writing as a method of inquiry, we tended the garden and dwelled upon ideas of nature, culture, and their intersection in a particular place. Our garden experiences left cyber footprints in virtual space as blog spots on a thesis blog site. The garden and the inquiry it generated outside,is brought back inside the education building as a Master's thesis. The garden grew in different and unpredictable ways due to intense construction on site, entwining the planter boxes with unseen variables.

Working with an organization outside the public school system that was creating schoolyard gardens, I began to think about culture and cultivation inside and outside of schooling practices. The liveliness of the schoolyard gardens presented possibilities for enlivening educational discourses. With two participants I planted a container box schoolyard garden outside Lamoureux Hall, which houses the Faculty of Education. Utilizing aspects of place-based pedagogy, ecoliteracy, ecopedagogy and a metissage of a/r/tography, eco-art and writing as a method of inquiry, we tended the garden and dwelled upon ideas of nature, culture, and their intersection in a particular place. Our garden experiences left cyber footprints in virtual space as blog spots on a thesis blog site. The garden and the inquiry it generated outside,is brought back inside the education building as a Master's thesis. The garden grew in different and unpredictable ways due to intense construction on site, entwining the planter boxes with unseen variables.

Working with an organization outside the public school system that was creating schoolyard gardens, I began to think about culture and cultivation inside and outside of schooling practices. The liveliness of the schoolyard gardens presented possibilities for enlivening educational discourses. With two participants I planted a container box schoolyard garden outside Lamoureux Hall, which houses the Faculty of Education. Utilizing aspects of place-based pedagogy, ecoliteracy, ecopedagogy and a metissage of a/r/tography, eco-art and writing as a method of inquiry, we tended the garden and dwelled upon ideas of nature, culture, and their intersection in a particular place. Our garden experiences left cyber footprints in virtual space as blog spots on a thesis blog site. The garden and the inquiry it generated outside,is brought back inside the education building as a Master's thesis. The garden grew in different and unpredictable ways due to intense construction on site, entwining the planter boxes with unseen variables.