A fruição teatral na educação estética dos estudantes: narrativas de um espectador - professor - artista

Abstract

This dissertation discusses the need and potential of enjoying theatrical shows for the aesthetic training of basic education students. The central focus is on investigating specific theories/pedagogies on the topic to understand how such practice, combined with specialized teaching training, provides learning of the main elements/constitutive concepts of classical, traditional and/or experimental theatrical art. It is understood that, from the perspective of a critical aesthetic education developed in a procedural way, the spectatorial experience and the analysis of the contents of regional, national and global theatrical culture, added to mediation as a dialogical space for observing oneself and others, can build a unique formation in the teaching/learning of theater. To meet this intention, bibliographical research was carried out reviewing the main publications on theatrical enjoyment by school-age children and contrasting them, exemplifying, explaining and/or illustrating them with the author's experiences in his career as a student, teacher, producer and director. of theater. Therefore, the study combines two qualitative research methodologies: bibliographic and autobiographical narrative. As a theoretical reference, the work dialogues with Augusto Boal (1977, 1991, 2002, 2009), Flavio Desgranges (2011, 2015, 2018) and Taís Ferreira (2005, 2017, 2023). The study draws attention to the quality of this significant theatrical experience for the formation and expansion of artistic and critical imagination. In this sense, the research permeates the development of students' ways of reading, which does not result from a linear, natural system, but rather through construction work, in a dialectical character, based on systematized theatrical mediation for the qualification of theatrical enjoyment. Likewise, the work highlights the importance of specialized teaching training so that theatrical enjoyment constitutes critical training for students.