ART EDUCATION AS AN OBJECT OF STUDY: A LOOK FROM THE TRAINING OF TRAINERS

Art Education continues to be a topic of deep debate in different educational spheres, in search of achieving a place of recognition in the educational field, given the undervaluation it has with respect to other areas of knowledge. This qualitative and quantitative research, which is an ex post facto study with descriptive scope, investigates the epistemological and methodological foundations in teachers, students and in the documents of self-evaluation and evaluation for accreditation purposes of a Bachelor's degree program in Art Education. As part of the results, the study allows recognizing communication, language and artistic thought and Research + Creation as articulating axes that contribute to the debate to place Art Education itself as an object of study, in order to strengthen the training of trainers and the production of knowledge, from a perspective of language and artistic thought.