Teaching Theatre to indigenous students: an intercultural challenge

• Autor(a) principal: Fornaciari, Christina
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Docência do Ensino Superior (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/rdes/article/view/1977
• topic: Interculturalidade; Ensino de teatro; Educação indígena; Interculturalism; Theatre teaching; Indigenous education

This paper aims to analyze the theater teaching practice within an interculturalism context; more specifically, in the context of education for indigenous students. The proposed approach aims to confront the challenge of providing education, valuing and integrating the knowledge of the indigenous people, but at the same time, working with traditional theater teaching knowledge, inside and outside the University. The methodology for such includes a case study, derived from the author’s practical experience at FIEI/UFMG (Federal University of Minas Gerais), with students from various indigenous ethnic groups, allied to the thought of theorists from the fields of education, art education and theater. The results expected to be achieved are not presented as answers but rather, they consist in the formulation of certain questions, which may work as guidelines for further thinking on the subject.