A importância das artes visuais no ato educativo: contribuindo na prevenção da gravidez na adolescência no povoado bom jesus da palma

Abstract

Teenage pregnancy is a constant problem in places lacking basic services offered by the government. This work consists of a field research, carried out in the village of Bom Jesus da Palma, in the state of Tocantins, and aims to bring out the high rate of teenage pregnancy in the region and reflect this context through the visual arts. Data collection was carried out through interviews with 10 young people and adolescents with a history of pregnancy, current or recent, and with the community health team. Among the results, it was observed that despite having information on contraceptives, adolescents still got pregnant. Understanding the feelings of the women surveyed, the maturity and maternal love that flourished in them and became latent during the research, an artistic process was born that developed between the young women and me, where the perceptions of the world around us and motherhood were the genesis of a collective process within the field of art.