This dissertation aims to analyze pedagogical practices in Graphic Design teaching based on active methodologies. The research mapped out such methodologies, which were originally designed for application in areas of knowledge related to exact subjects. Starting from the articulation of AM and pedagogical practices for the teaching of Design, exercises and dynamics related to the methodologies in question were structured, proposed and experienced in the classroom. An action-study field study was carried out in a projectual Design discipline over three semesters, and in the last semester a class diary was written, besides interviews with Design teachers on purpose to know their pedagogical practices. Student interviews were recorded and analyzed in light of Fink s (2007) taxonomy of significant learning. The results were recorded, classified and documented, and an instrument of analysis of the reported pedagogical practices was created, whose consolidated interpretation, in the final chapter, resulted in the proposals and reflections about the pedagogical strategies that were sought to achieve.