From wise knowledge to dramatized knowledge. New foundations for the permanent application of theater in the classroom

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Luis Fernando Lara Coronado

Abstract

This essay reveals a new approach to the theatrical phenomenon that surpasses the traditional view of theater in school as theaterspectacle, limited to playful-performing objectives of a temporary nature, to enable its practice permanent in the classroom as an activator of the development of thinking. For this, the origin of the tension between theaterspectacle and classroom-spectacle is analyzed, revealing the historicist approach that underlies the traditional use of theater in school and its consequences in the failed implementation of theater in the curriculum as an activator of creative thinking. This demonstrates the weakness and inconsistency of the historicist foundation to grant the theater its status of scientific knowledge and a redefinition of theater as knowledge is proposed, which allows it to be installed permanently in the classroom.

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Lara Coronado, L. F. (2018). From wise knowledge to dramatized knowledge. New foundations for the permanent application of theater in the classroom. Revista Stultifera, 1(1), 60–82. https://doi.org/10.4206/rev.stultifera.2018.v1n1-05
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Artículos de Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales