The Instituto Pedagógico Nacional currently offers the subjects of visual arts, dance, and theater, which are part of the Art Education Department. These components allow students to engage with experiences related to the field of the arts, making significant contributions to the formation of sensitive, autonomous, creative, proactive, and critical individuals, with the possibility of constructing new expressive ways of relating to their environment.
The area proposes a progressive educational process through subjects, workshops, extracurricular spaces, electives, topics, and school research seminars, with the purpose of ensuring continuity in processes related to the development of specific competencies in visual thinking, the body, and the performing arts. In this way, creativity is strengthened, along with the practical and theoretical learning of techniques and disciplinary elements that make it possible to approach diverse practices in dance, theater, and visual arts.
Among the artistic disciplines that make up the area are the visual arts, which include techniques such as drawing, painting, modeling, sculpture, and visual arts, including design, photography, and audiovisual media, adapted to the particularities of each community. In addition, the study of art history plays a fundamental role in contextualizing and developing artistic practices within a specific time and place. This encourages students’ critical and creative thinking, taking into account both the past and the present. In this way, the goal is to broaden students’ perspectives as creators, managers, and spectators of art.
Regarding the performing arts, the educational process is developed through practices such as shadow theater, object theater, improvisation, circus arts, physical theater, folk dance, modern dance, contemporary dance, urban dance, performance, and live arts. These processes begin with exploration, play, and body awareness, understanding the role of new trends in stage creation within the field of artistic culture. Such processes are further deepened through the study of the body on stage in the topics and seminar-project courses for tenth and eleventh grade students.
Finally, the subjects of visual arts, dance, and theater contribute to the Institutional Educational Project (PEI) by strengthening the following areas of development:
Physical Development
Exploration of abilities that promote the development of physical skills through psychomotricity and motor qualities, as well as knowledge and care of one’s own body.
Personal and Social Development
Exploration of abilities aimed at strengthening autonomy, especially regarding decision-making that positions students critically and proactively from an ethical and political perspective within social life. Likewise, interpersonal relationships based on respect, sensitivity, and dialogical interaction with peers and adults are encouraged, establishing bonds of reciprocity and cooperation.
Expressive Development
Exploration of skills that foster the development of communicative abilities in comprehension and expression, stimulating the use of diverse languages, verbal and nonverbal,in a spontaneous, ethical, aesthetic, and creative manner.
Logical-Mathematical Development
Exploration of abilities that allow the development of skills to observe and investigate environmental phenomena and their problems, generating different possibilities or alternatives that benefit both the social and natural environment.
Overall, the area promotes the teaching of the arts in order to strengthen students’ inner communication, broaden awareness of their own identity, and develop self-control skills. Likewise, it encourages collaborative work processes and enhances the ability to resolve problems and conflicts in both academic settings and human relationships. In this sense, the objective of the Art Education Department is to provide a relational theoretical-practical space that promotes the formation of sensitive, expressive, and reflective individuals capable of contributing to the processes of social change and transformation required by our society.