The paths taken to develop an artistic and educational practice at school: a freirean inspiration

• Autor(a) principal: Saul, Alexandre
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Veras
• Texto Completo: http://site.veracruz.edu.br:8087/instituto/revistaveras/index.php/revistaveras/article/view/80
• topic: theater; dialogue; Paulo Freire; teatro; diálogo; Paulo Freire.

This paper reports the paths taken to develop an artistic and educational practice in an Education Center for Youth and Adults, with the intention of stimulating critical reflection of the school community about some of their limit-situations and mobilize to overcome them. Through participant observation, on a qualitative approach, there was built a theater practice inspired by the politicalpedagogical proposal of Paulo Freire, to encode, in theatrical language, and to discuss with the school community, the limit-situations experienced by them. The objective was to develop a theater in which the dialogue, as proposed by Freire, assumed a central role with regard to the construction of knowledge and an emancipatory practice. The results demonstrated the feasibility and relevance of such an experience with Youth and Adults, highlighting its potential to expand the ability of “reading reality” of the participants and generate actions of active citizenship. In addition, the results suggest implications for the educational curriculum, waving rooting possibilities of theater practice performed.