Organization of savoir in the world of life of artists who teach

Abstract

This article addresses on the configuration of artists who display the professional capital acquired for the purpose of participating in teaching and training new generations of professionals in the artistic field. The work is supported in interviews, as the central point in biographical-narrative perspective. First, authors assume the notion of savoir, as an effect of structuring cultural, social and professional capital, they also show three participants journey and the coordinates that guide the work of artists who teach. Later, authors expose the value of family relationships. where dispositions to assume certain trajectory are raised, an individual journey, a unique, unrepeatable path. In the description of the path traveled, the time spent incorporating skills of the artistic field that leads to the distinction of each of the members of the family nucleus is valued. In the same way, authors realize the meaning of being teachers in the artistic field, the desires and orientations that place them as active subjects in a given social field. Finally, authors present some reflections around the contingent of social action: relevance to a social group, position taking and adoption of projects in the configuration of the particular agent.