TEATRO E INFÂNCIAS: POSSIBILIDADES CRIATIVAS NO ENSINO DE TEATRO COM CRIANÇAS

Abstract

This paper deals with the theme of theatrical performance in childhood, highlighting the creative possibilities for constructing dramaturgy with children at school and the processes experienced by a drama graduate during her training as an art educator. The dramaturgies created by the children are experiences that show how essential theatrical language is to the learning and training process of children in basic education. In this sense, knowing the importance of teaching theater in childhood education, this experience report aims to explain the experience with dramaturgy with children from experiences with a class 2 of Early Childhood Education, which includes children aged 3 and 4 years old from the Center for Childhood Education - NEI-CAp / UFRN and with a class of 3rd year of Elementary School, with children between 8 and 9 years old from the Municipal School Professor Bernardo Nascimento. Using a qualitative approach, we sought, through explanatory research, to understand how the process of creating dramaturgy with children takes place, considering them as the protagonists of the whole process of building theatrical performance at school. As a result, the creative process of two dramaturgies developed by the children contemplated with the graduate student's interventions during her Mandatory Internships in the Theater Degree course and participation in the Pedagogical Residency Program, showing that, with practices that value all knowledge, from the theatrical making, one can experience spontaneous and meaningful creative processes, bringing new possibilities for artistic creation with children.