Aproximações entre o teatro comunitário e a educação escolar: uma experiência na EMEI Professora Vinovita Guimarães da Silva

Abstract

This article presents the artistic-pedagogical process carried out in the Scenic Arts/Theater classes at Escola Municipal de Educação Integral - EMEI Professora Vinovita Guimarães da Silva in Aparecida de Goiânia - GO. Where we proposed a creative process driven by the daily needs of the children who were students of 5th grade A and B, using as a guide the practices of Community Theater that have been gaining space in academic research, thus, we used as theoretical reference the researchers Márcia Pompeo Nogueira, Marina Henriques Coutinho, Zeca Nosé, Marcela Bidegain and others. We consider that the Community Theater carries within itself characteristics of the Theater of the Oppressed, proposed by the theatrologist Augusto Boal, thus, this is also one of the references in this meeting, as well as the ideas of the teacher and philosopher Paulo Freire, since this is an investigation in the school setting. In this investigation, we used Participatory Research as methodology because it involves the students in the analysis of their own reality based on the relationship between the investigated, the researcher, and the school community. This relationship was established based on the question: how to practice Community Theater within a school educational institution? We reached some conclusions, among them, that the practice of Community Theater is not only possible, but also opens several paths and possibilities in the teaching of Theater within the public school system.