Oficina de Teatro e Educação

Code:

E612

Acronym:

OTE

Instance: 2015/2016 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Education Sciences
Course/CS Responsible:	First degree in Educational Sciences

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
LCED	25	Official Curricular Structure	3	-	3	-

Teaching language

Suitable for English-speaking students

Objectives

 The objectives of the CU are focused in the recognition of the potentiality of theatre in the various contexts where the educational process occurs, namely:

- develop knowledge and skills about theatre based educative intervention methodologies,

- provide empirical experiences in methods of expression and sublimation in the theatrical context,

- stimulate reflection about the utility of these methods in formal, non formal and informal educative contexts.

Learning outcomes and competences

Theatre is a bodily based art form. As such, an educative process that aims to unravel the understanding of its conditions and potentialities will have to depart from a strong experiential basis, from which reflexive components will be devised. We will thus articulate intra and interpersonal dimensions in the process of constructing knowledge.

Beyond the expectation of self and hetero knowledge development, self-esteem, interpersonal comunicationn skills and creativity, passible of application in educational contexts; the most important expected result in terms of acquired skills is the capacity of the student in being able to recognitise himself as a generator of contents in its own apprenticeship.   

Working method

Presencial

Program

The Syllabus proposes a broadened understanding of the theatrical theme in its various aspects, in which a strong experiential exploration will sustain the Theoretical research:

- Art whilst context of personal and social construction of meanings.

- Theatre whilst language and its potential in educative, social and community intervention processes. Forms of theatrical expression in educative and communitary contexts.

- The body whilst locus of expressive transformation.

Mandatory literature

Brook, Peter. (1968/1996); The empty space. New York: Touchstone.
Boal Augusto; Teatro do oprimido. ISBN: 85-200-0265-X
Grotowski, J. (1968/1975); Para um Teatro Pobre. Lisboa: Forja.
Silva, José Eduardo; (2013). Entre o Teatro e a Psicologia: Processos e vivências da mudança psicológica em contexto teatral. Tese de doutoramento. FPCEUP. (PhD dissertation. FPCEUP)
Ramos, R. & Sanz, S. (2010). ; El Teatro comunitário como estratégia de desarollo social: El caso de Patricios Buenos Aires. Miriada, 4, 141-157.
Conrad, D. (2004); Exploring risky youth experiences: Popular theatre as a participatory, performative research method. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 3(1). Article 2. Retrieved [INSERT DATE] from http://www.ualberta.ca/~iiqm/backissues/3_1/html/conrad.html

Complementary Bibliography

Freire Paulo; Pedagogia do oprimido. ISBN: 85-219-0005-8
Plastow, J. (2009).; Practising for the revolution? The influence of Augusto Boal in Brazil and Africa. Journal of Transatlantic Studies Vol. 7, No. 3, 294-303.
Malafaia, C., & Cruz, H. (in press); Peregrinações: O teatro e a comunidade. In Hugo Cruz et al. (Eds.), A arte e comunidade em Portugal: Registos e trajectórias. Lisboa: DGartes.

Teaching methods and learning activities

The adopted metholology will be divided into:

- Hours of contact: Exposition, Debate, Group dinamics and Tutorial orientation.

- Autonomous work: Bibliographic research, Writing, and experiential work.

The teaching methodologies are based in the equilibrium between the bibliographic research; the presentation and debate of concepts; and the experiencing of a process of theatrical creation based in the participants’ personal experiences as LCE students. 

During the semester the participants will be invited to register their personal reflections in a diary (logbook) that must be accompanied by a final theoretical integration report about the experiencing of the process – including the results of the bibliographic research. The result of the theatrical creation process will be presented by the group in the end of the semester.

 

 

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

designation	Weight (%)
Defesa pública de dissertação, de relatório de projeto ou estágio, ou de tese	15,00
Participação presencial	35,00
Trabalho escrito	50,00
Total:	100,00

Calculation formula of final grade

The evaluation components include:

- quality of the presential component (35%);

- diary (logbook) and integration report (50%);

- involvement in the theatrical creation (15%).