A dimensão pedagógica do teatro: reflexões sobre uma proposta metodológica

Abstract

This research was motivated in such a way by the important presence of the theatrical activity in some stages and contexts of the life of the author (as actor, author, director and theater-educator), how much for its fidgets before the use that if has fact, many times, of the theater in come back spaces the educative intentions. Between them they are: theater to amuse (that it strengthens stigmata and preconceptions of sort, race, social classroom, etc, sufficiently spread socially), theater to educate (in the direction of moralizing, to pass a message and values that is not questioned), or, still, social theater, that if it considers to approach, in its thematic, understood questions as social problems of the world contemporary, between them: drugs, pregnancy in the adolescence, violence. These questions are treated, many times, in superficial and limited way, without a critical look and a deepened inquiry of its contradictions. It is added this, some times, the unfamiliarity and the unconcern with proper the aesthetic theatrical. From the inquiry of its proper experiences as educator in theater, the author presents and searches to analyze the pedagogical methodology procedures that come developing to the long one of these experiences, which, considering to carry through it a theater from histories of life of the involved ones in the process and from histories of its community, objectifies to contribute in such a way so that the citizen-actors they have conscience of the elements that compose aesthetic theatrical, how much for the development of its critical capacity before the boarded contents in this theater. Based for the concepts of Theater-education, Popular Theater of Militancy Politics and Theater of Selfdetermination, the author presents its methodological pillars, and brings, as form of exemplify and pressuring the cited pillars, two specific experiences that developed. One of them with students of a public school and to another one, with considered adolescents inflators, fulfilling measured judicial in freedom, in a project to socialize them. This Research also counts on depositions, in interviews, of the actors who had participated of these theatricals processes. Such processes, the author decided to call of theater education.