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Creative activity; Aesthetic experiences; Aesthetic dimension; Initial
teacher training; Cultural-Historical Psychology.
This study aims to understand the possibilities that initial teacher training can provide
for the development of creative activity as a constitutive dimension of teaching,
based on the contributions of Historical-Cultural Psychology. It is based on historical-
dialectical materialism, a theoretical framework that provides conceptual support for
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reflections on teaching work, creative and imaginative processes, and aesthetics as
potential counterpoints to the alienation promoted within capitalist society. In order to
understand this potential regarding initial teacher training, a Formative Experiment
was carried out during Assisted Teaching in a mandatory internship curricular
component in a teaching degree course at a public university in Rio Grande do
Norte. The experiment was developed in four stages: 1) diagnosis of the participating
class; 2) planning of the formative experiment; 3) development of the formative
experiment; and 4) analysis of the data from the formative experiment. Of the
students enrolled in the class in which the experiment was carried out, ten declared
their consent to participate in the research. Based on the results found, three
categories of analysis were established a posteriori, namely: the influence of
technical rationality in the initial teacher training of students; the aesthetic dimension
as an invitation to creative teaching activity; and the importance of the role of the
teacher trainer in the development of the creative activity of undergraduate students.
The data analyzed allow us to conclude that initial training, when guided by the
development of creative activity, favors a more critical, humanizing, transformative
and aesthetic performance. It is considered essential to treat creation as a
transversal theme in teacher training, requiring collective efforts to review
pedagogical practices, formulate public policies and value the teacher as a
humanizing and creative agent. The consolidation of this perspective demands
alignment between educational policies, training practices and continuing education,
recognizing creation as an essential and inseparable dimension of teaching work.