Educação Popular e o Teatro do Oprimido: o dinamismo entre as concepções de Paulo Freire e Augusto Boal

Abstract

This research is based on the ethical-political positioning of social change through a liberating education that converges between the thoughts of Paulo Freire and Augusto Boal. The first was to praise the role of nonconventional education, that is, that is far from the bonds of modern capitalism, aiming only at profit to the detriment of the individual's ethical and moral enrichment, that it becomes an agent that transforms the environment in which it lives. The second, like Paulo Freire, sought to break with the model of banking education in force through theatrical games, an indispensable tool for self-expression and autonomy of the individual. Reflective in character, the present work seeks to discuss about conscientization, emancipation, liberation and overcoming of the oppressed/ oppressed binomial, using experiences lived in schools and other institutions, such as the penitentiary system. Finally, it is justified by the need to emerge in the educational sphere subjects capable of thinking and transforming the world.