Abstract

SILVA, Mádson Francisco da  and  SILVA, Maria de Fátima Gomes da. Education as a practice of freedom through the Theater of the Oppressed: new educational applications. Rev. Diálogo Educ. [online]. 2020, vol.20, n.66, pp.1410-1435.  Epub Oct 01, 2020. ISSN 1981-416X.  https://doi.org/10.7213/1981-416x.20.066.ao02.

The article in question results from a master's research entitled "the Theater of the Oppressed and Confronting School Violence", whose main objective was to research the issue of school violence within the ambit of practices pedagogical activities of teachers in the final years of elementary regarding the methodology, a qualitative research approach was chosen, with an emphasis on action research. Data were collected through workshops at Theater of the Oppressed (TO), based on ideas of Augusto Boal (2015, 2013), which implied new teaching and learning practices in the investigated schools. In addition, participant observations and questionnaires were also carried out. For data analysis, categorical thematic content analysis was used. The results indicated that the TO workshops enabled teachers participating in this investigation, new ways of coping with school violence, with the participation of students, through education as practice of freedom. It was concluded, therefore, that this study served to awaken the emancipatory awareness of teachers and students, through the practices experienced in the investigated schools, and that the Theater of the Oppressed is an excellent resource for coping with school violence and for valuing the diverse knowledge experienced and reinvented in the vitality of students and the entire school community to free themselves from oppression and to rediscover their humanized, liberating and emancipated essence in daily struggles. In this study, the relevance of education as a practice of freedom.

Keywords : Education; Freedom; Theater of the Oppressed.

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