Educating for citizenship through Process Drama

Authors

  • Nilton Hitotuzi Universidade Federal do Oeste do Pará (UFOPA)

Abstract

Drama as a literary art, beyond the aesthetic pleasure it can generate, can also be a tool in the educational process of people in all age groups. In this paper, we present fragments of an experiment in which a kind of drama, called Process Drama was used, during a semester, to help a class of year seven students at a rural school in the municipality of Tefé (Amazonas State) to develop a critical awareness of the reality surrounding them. Ultimately, the goal of the study was to introduce to those students critical thinking as an essential tool for the full exercise of citizenship. The study was based especially on Freirian critical pedagogy, but it also capitalized on other critical thinking works. For data collection, written tests and questionnaires with semi-opened questions were used. The seven categories of David Carraher’s critical thinker were the parameter against which the data was analyzed. The results indicated a modest development of critical thinking of the students participating in the experiment as a result of their engagement (although in minute proportions) in reflections about issues that affect or could affect their communities. 

Key words: literary art, Process Drama, Education, critical thinking,
citizenship.

Author Biography

Nilton Hitotuzi, Universidade Federal do Oeste do Pará (UFOPA)

Possui graduação em Letras Língua Inglesa pela Universidade Federal do Amazonas (1999), mestrado em TEFL/TESL - University of Birmingham (2004) e Doutorado em Letras e Lingüística pela Universidade Federal da Bahia (2010). É professor do Instituto de Ciências da Educação da Universidade Federal do Oeste do Pará. Tem experiência na área de Educação, com ênfase em Métodos e Técnicas de Ensino, atuando principalmente nos seguintes temas: ensino formal de pronúncia, pesquisa em sala de aula, metodologias do ensino de línguas estrangeiras.

Published

2012-04-09

How to Cite

Hitotuzi, N. (2012). Educating for citizenship through Process Drama. Calidoscópio, 10(1), 97–113. Retrieved from https://www.revistas.unisinos.br/index.php/calidoscopio/article/view/cld.2012.101.09