Pedagogia de Humberto Mauro: a natureza em Azulão e O João de Barro

Abstract

We observed that nowadays there is a growing use of audiovisual in the production of educative materials, although most of these materials don’t contain a reflection about the pedagogic scope that images in movement can provide. Interested especially in the contents to be transmitted, most educative videos reproduce the television and industrial cinema esthetic, which rarely allows a satisfactory learning relation with the films. This paper analyzes two educative films of the director Humberto Mauro: Azulão (1948) and O João de Barro (1956), produced by the Instituto Nacional de Cinema Educativo (INCE). Based on an investigation of his method, we tried to understand how he represents nature in these films. We hope to contribute to the discussion about the learning process with images, presenting some suggestions for the production of contemporary educative videos