Experimentos com a teatralidade do cotidiano das crianças: o ensino de teatro nas séries iniciais do ensino fundamental

Abstract

The current article refers to my own experience while studying in the Federal University of Tocantins, Brazil, during the "supervised internship II" period, with children from elementary school class 1. At this time I developed activities with Theater Game, giving special attention to the works of the north american teacher Viola Spolin, which enabled me to apprehend a wide range of game possibilities, having had a great lot of engagement and interest coming from the children. In activities involving theatrical games, I understood the diversity of children's ways of learning and relating to each other, as well as a variety of teaching proposals. I could perceive the school as a space for children to experience their childhoods, and the teacher's commitment to guarantee practices that lead to creativity freedom. As a result, I found a complex field of action, as it deals with people in interaction, therefore, demanding in training, planning and work organization. In addition to Spolin's work, and in order to analyzing the experiences carried out during the Internship, I refered to other authors such as Freire (1996), Koudela and Santana (2005), Koudela (1984), Slade (1978) among others.