Teatro grego na escola: ferramenta didática para análise das vivências religiosas politeístas gregas e de matriz africana

Abstract

The elaboration of this research aspires to understand the possibility of enhancing the critical and investigative spirit of individuals students in the school context, contributing to the practices of the History professional in their classes. The analysis starts from perception of the spatial and temporal distance of the students from the Greek religion, and then associates this distance with a similar one regarding the African-oriented religions. Based on this, we seek through the Greek theater a pedagogical possibility to work broadly on the theme of religion, thus making it an environment conducive to religious plurality, respect and tolerance. The use of the Greek theatrical play by the tragediographer Euripides will be a link between knowledge, the present and the past, providing students with a view of a specific cut of Greek religion and religiosity in the IV and V Century B.C.E. In addition to the Greek play, we also used books that portray the myths of African-oriented religions, for the purpose of a comparative analysis between both polytheistic religions and the way they are interpreted within the school environment. Concomitantly, we reflected on the purpose of exercising reading, interdisciplinarity, as well as understanding and interpreting the factors related and studied within the historical contexts of the play. The Greek theater also makes it possible to awaken in individuals the search for knowledge, as well as fortify the construction of knowledge by deconstructing the vision of a religion apart from our culture