II Congresso Internacional de Pedagogia Social

Abstract

RUSCHE, Robson Jesus. Teatro, gesto e atitude: investigando a prevenção das DSTs e AIDS por meio de técnicas dramáticas com um grupo de presidiários. In Proceedings of the 2nd II Congresso Internacional de Pedagogia Social, 2008, São Paulo (SP) [online]. 2009 [cited 24 April 2024]. Available from: <http://www.proceedings.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=MSC0000000092008000100014&lng=en&nrm=iso> .

After tanking part in a workshop for penitentiary inmates which aimed at STD/AIDS prevention and changing attitudes toward these diseases in which dramatic techniques based on Augusto Boal's work were utilized, I have raised the following questions: Is it possible to change attitudes utilizing dramatic techniques? How can one evaluate the educational process triggered of by these thechniques? The theoretical psychological principles utilised for investigating attitudes were taken from Ligia A. Amaral's works, who defines attitude as a psychological disposition which is quasi - corporal and encompasses needs, values and specially emotions and is almost an embodiment of emotions and feelings. Other basic theoretical sources for this study were the works of Bertold Brecht and Paulo Freire. The formes provided the tools for working with attitudes in drama and analysing then through the observation of gestures and the latter provided the educational process toward attitudes change. The objective of this investigation was to, by studyng gestures, make inferences about the expression of attitudes and their process of transformation in order to verify if dramatic thechniques can promote the expression of affectivity. Videotapes and written reports were utilised for recording the workshop activities in order to find the relationships between gestures, expressions and body moviments and the speech contents expressed in the scenes and the exercises perfomad during those activities. I tried to classify the elements of gestures that occurred by utilizing Berotld Brecht's concepts of gestus and strangeness. Two facts encountered in the invetigation seemed to be fundamental: the expressive gestures that indicate the dramatic potential for dealing with affective elements and the incongruity of the gesture expressions that points out that it is necessary to develop the gesture language into a tool for perceiving and reflecting on attitudes. I believe that, in therms of educational process, the workshops experience was able to achieve the focusing on and the awareness of the AIDS problem, though it failed to go any further, hence showing that it is necessary to systematise what was discussed. Therefore, the elements that are needed for the development of an dramatic educational proposal can be found in the political-aesthetic proposal of Bertold Brecht and his reflexive work on gesture language and also in the theoretical frame of Paulo Freire's pedagogy.

Keywords : teatro; prisão; Educação.