Twenty-eighth International Conference on Learning

Abstract

In Brazil, common sense, hatred of knowledge, and neglect of minorities have eroded the country. The fascist eruption. Racism, homophobia, femicide, the extermination of indigenous and environmental leaders, the advance of burning and censorship of teachers are some examples of the state of siege in the country. The planet’s current eighth economy and the second in social inequality have long suffered from these issues. In basic education units, movements such as “Partyless Schools” and attacks on the themes of gender studies and African mother cultures have gagged and intimidated teachers. Within the Brazilian historical and social formation we still have the indigenous holocaust with the extermination and imposition of faith by the Portuguese colonizers, beyond the period of slavery, which until today continues through the genocide of the black population left on the margins. Not to mention the lead years. It was in turbulent times like this, of murders and arbitrariness in Brazil, that Paulo Freire developed the Pedagogy of the Oppressed (PO) and Augusto Boal the Theater of the Oppressed (TO). The reflection that this pre-project proposes is situated in the debate about empowerment and decolonization, in the history of the carioca peripheries, in the aesthetics of pedagogy and political theater through a study of the main works of the two theorists and the application of the Theater of the Oppressed through theatrical games and the forum theater in a public school on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro.