On Theater and other things: considerations on political-libertarian art-teaching practice

Abstract

This article - the first chapter of the monographic work titled "Theater is not a mess, honey: for a political-libertarian teaching practice"- aims to reverberate, based on the reflections provided by the authors Gilberto Icle (2007, 2010, 2011), Jorge Larrosa (2002, 2011), Augusto Boal (2012), Beatriz Cabral (2006), Helena Katz e Christine Greiner (2005), Michel Foucault (1987), Antônio Nóvoa (2009), Ingrid Koudela e Arão Paranaguá de Santana (2005) about the importance of Theater teaching in Basic Education, as well as reflect on how the artistic-political-libertarian teaching practice in theater contributes, in a significant way, in the process of deconstruction and construction of concepts and knowledge necessary for the instruction and critical-political formation of the individuals, knowledge that goes beyond the programmatic contents applied in the classroom and that coadunate for a better understanding and / or reading of the world. In addition, the text also discusses the importance of the aforementioned teaching practice as a powerful path of political resistance to the harmful projects like the “School Without a Party” (2015) and the already approved Law n. 13.415 / 2017, which deals with the Reform of Secondary Education, whose main purpose is to dismantle Brazilian education, with the clear objective of transforming students into apolitical and uncritical beings.