O uso dos jogos teatrais na educação: possibilidades diante do fracasso escolar

Abstract

This article if relates to the use of the theater in the education, over all with children in pertaining to school situation of failure. It is intended here to describe one of the six cases studied in participant research, carried through with children in the related situation, presenting diverse difficulties of learning, referred to us by their own teachers. Based on the complaints, a plan of week long sessions of drama games was prepared covering the entire year. This plan was set up with a view to promoting and stimulating cognitive functions involved in the learning processes — which puts in evidence the pedagogical purpose of the research. However, In the course of the activities, questions were identified about the subjectivity of the participants, directly connected with their learning processes. Supporting in the psychoanalytic theory, it was possible to verify that the use of drama games in education constitutes an effective teaching and subjective (therapeutic) practice, meaning a possibility in addressing school failure problems.