“What if it was Victor’s report”? Thinking with the cinema the otherness, the imagination and the psychology in the formation of teachers

Abstract

The article shares a pedagogical experience with cinema with the discipline psychology of education offered to students of varied degrees at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. We analyzed two audiovisual works made after the imagination was proposed about what would be the movie The Wild Boy by François Truffaut if the inspirational report for the script was from the character Victor and not from Dr. Itard. For such purpose, we dialogue with the recent contributions of the field of Cinema-education, the teaching of Psychology in teacher education and cinema. In this context, the possibility of performing inventive experiences with cinema in the course of psychology presented itself as aesthetic practices and political alternatives to the historically dominant curricular model in this discipline, which allowed us to identify some effects of this type of exercise on teacher education, such as the overcoming of pedagogical appropriations of cinema, the legitimacy of imagination in the construction of knowledge and interdisciplinary articulations.

Keywords
educational psychology; teacher training; cinema and education