We are concerned here with the teaching of Drama in Education and theatre in secondary education. A teaching project is proposed as well as a curricular design, accounting for de three main aspects of their use by teachers: as an optional subject, as a teaching resource for other subjects and as a resource for social and cultural stimulation within the school and in the neighbourhood. All four work hypothesis suggest low specific qualification of teachers in this area of knowledge, as well as the scarce curricular prestige of this subject in primary and secondary education. This combines with the students poor emotional and aesthetic background and the lack of economic and material resources within a context of poor infrastructures. Such hypotheses have been supported by referring to the contributions of the scientific community and national and international experts in the domain of the teaching-learning process an the main concepts implied: artistic and emotional education, group dynamics, educational intervention and others. In order to put to test and check the hypotheses used an almost-experimental design has been made up, based on interviews, inquiries and discussion groups. Direct observation and participation of teachers have also been taken into account. The paper presents the extent to which the hypotheses are verified. Once the proposals have been examined, we conclude that it is possible a teaching and use of drama in education and theatre aimed at bringing the children and the whole educational community towards a change in attitudes, methods and concepts
2005-06-23
