O desenvolvimento pessoal do educador através da biodança

Abstract

This dissertation was produced as result of a research developed in the municipality of Maceió (AL, Brazil) with a group of educators engaged in Biodance, having as main question: how Biodance may contribute to the personal development of the educator? By means of research-action, it aimed at tracing a parallel between the exercise of teaching and the lines of Biodance practice (vitality, sexuality, creativity, affection and transcendence), with a view to reflections about physical consciousness, personal development and emotional equilibrium of educators, in a manner to allow them to exercise the profession using their full capabilities. This study was motivated by a recent research developed in the Federal University of Brasília, which subject was “educators desistance syndrome”, and had Biodance as theoretical reference, in combination with the currently adopted principle of education focused on the teacher as a “professional-in-relationship”. Reference is made to some directions regarded as fundamental for the development of the educator: awakening and cultivation of educators’ utopias, emotional protection of the educator through subjective communication in groups; body consciousness; non-separation between personal and professional identities.