Art and education: the theater as a methodological resource in pedagogical work in literacy

• Autor(a) principal: Barros, Marta Silene Ferreira
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: Paschoal, Jaqueline Delgado, Ferreira, Ana Letícia, Barros, Priscila Cordeiro Soares
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por; spa
• Título da fonte: Revista Ibero-Americana de Estudos em Educação (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.fclar.unesp.br/iberoamericana/article/view/12491
• topic: Education; Scenic Arts; Theater; Literacy.; Educación; Artes Escénicas; Teatro; Alfabetización.; Educação; Artes Cênicas; Teatro; Alfabetização; Letramento.

The present study aims to discuss the importance of theater and its relation to education in the sense of considering the benefits that this language can provide for classroom pedagogical work, thought as a methodological element in the practice of literacy, emphasizing their contribution to the literacy process for the integral development of the child. This theme is inserted in the current discussion on the specificity of the scenic arts especially in the sense that the theater has as a resource that needs to be seen in a systematic way and recognized as a scientific field with intentionality in the formation of the small child in the process of literacy. The key question implied by the analysis is: What is the relationship between art and education and how theater can be considered as a relevant and intentional subsidy in the teacher's practice in the child's education process in literacy? It is a qualitative research based on the critical dialectical approach that proposes a differentiated methodological possibility of teaching, to dynamize the practice in the classroom, thinking the theater as a differentiated resource in literacy, in the initial years of Fundamental Education. This study seeks to contribute to the professionals of the performing arts and pedagogy, have a new look at theater in the pedagogical praxis.