Abstract
The research had investigated the process of assigning personal meaning to the activity of study, specifically to the artistic activities developed in the artistic subject. The field survey had carried out in a 5th year of a municipal public school through classroom observations and interviews with students. The relationship between the motive of the study activity and the study actions had taken as a unit of analysis, categorizing the motives into pragmatics and linked to freedom of expression and the actions in actions of pedagogical organization, of aid, of valorization of the student and collective work. The children sought to establish relationships with learned knowledge and to take responsibility for their tasks. It had verified that there is a process of attribution of transforming personal meaning and that the pedagogical organization of the teachers produces scholastic success: they encouraged the collaboration among the colleagues, they fomented the collective work, and they organized study actions, which brings didactic principles for the organization of the developmental teaching.
Keywords:
Historical-Cultural Psychology; art education; school learning