Inter Ação
Print version ISSN 0101-7136
Abstract
ALOCHIO, Thiago de Oliveira. Social and educational dimensions of the theatre of the oppressed: culture, theater and popular education. Rev. Inter Ação [online]. 2016, vol.41, n.2, pp.287-304. ISSN 0101-7136. https://doi.org/10.5216/ia.v41i2.40762.
The article is divided in two parts: a discussion based on theoretical approach and an report of an experience. In the first moment based on a brief historical narrative about the concept of popular culture while an intellectual category present in a few social movements of Brazilian left wing during the decades of 50 and 60, emphasizes the conception of this concept in Augusto Boal and characterizes the Theater of Oppressed inside the tradition of a popular theater, the political theater, engaged. At last it relates with an experience in a curse of preparation in the center of Theater of Oppressed that resulted in reflections about popular education and pedagogical practice in general.
Keywords : Popular Culture; Theatre of the Oppressed; Oppression; Pluralism.