Teacher - artist: teacher training in higher education

Abstract

This article is based on the research carried out in 2015 in the city of Bogotá with 33 graduates of the Bachelor of Dance and Theater, on the routes followed in three categories: Pedagogical Experience, Artistic Production and Cultural Management, taking into account it has a period of 30 years (1984 - 2014). In it there are common elements that reveal an emerging theme: the Teacher-Artist duality, which is fundamental for the training of Graduates in Art Education in Higher Education, since it is a relevant aspect when defining or revising the curricular structure during this type of training. Artistic teaching and production are complementary and not contradictory activities in education and in the artistic context. This is an ethnographic qualitative research, the source of information comes from the semi-structured interviews conducted with graduates in 2015, applying the analysis of discourse Van Dijk (1999) and observation from a place of the shared aesthetic experience, proposed by Farina (2006), since the researchers are co-participants in the same training, graduated from the same university and professionally practice in the pedagogical field and artistic production in dance and theater.