International Journal of Education for Social Justice, 2020, 9(2), Subjectivities of the Arts Teachers and its Role as Agents of Change

The article shows the results of the study “Professional subjectivities of artists-teachers in the Los Lagos Region. Transformations of the social into cultural commitment”, which sought to know the subjectivities of the visual arts teachers of the Region Los Lagos in Chile and understand how these subjectivities contribute to the social and cultural development of the region. A mixed methodology was used, with the application of one survey and four focus groups. As main results of the qualitative phase, we find that the shaping of the subjectivities of the artists-teachers and their social and cultural contribution arises from three categories: i) Personal Artistic Creation Located; its doing is a situated practice that involves political decisions of how to rethink the world in a given context, making it ontological-episte-methodological. ii) The Artistic; which will transform and mediate in the social space and iii) Agents of change; where it takes transformative action out of the classroom, promoting participatory action beyond the formal. These onto-episte-methodological practices of the artists-teachers are actions that go directly to disrupt the previously established social-artistic space. The subjectivities of the teaching artist are the very possibility of social transformation of the territory, generating new senses, as a collaborative way of promoting changes through the arts.