Teatro, jogo e adolescência: um encontro das potencialidades do jogo quando presente na escola

Abstract

What outlines can the game, as a method, outline for the formation ­ at school and in life ­ of the teenager? This is one of the questions that guide the present research, whose objective was to investigate the encounter between the game, an element of the theatrical practice present in different spheres of the scene, and adolescence, a plural age group and full of transformations, within the public school. Brazilian, in the Theater class. The methodology used was of a qualitative nature, carried out through a dense theoretical study about the two objects and the accomplishment of four interviews, made with a theater teacher and three of her students, in order to extract from the sharing of these experiences questions and analyzes that involving the themes of the work. The two objects were investigated from the crossing of various fields, in addition to Theater, such as Sociology, Education and Psychology, and also by documents of Brazilian legislation. In the meantime, it was possible to verify how the game is a method that converges the experiences of its practice in multiple knowledge, building potentialities both in relation to the learning of the performing arts and in the dynamics of life, such as the initial question. When he meets the adolescent subject, immersed in an intense route of transformations, discoveries and inserted in the processes of socialization and identity construction, he can reverberate important stimuli that walk with the young person on such a route.