Um espetáculo na escola: análise sobre a dança na Educação Básica a partir de tesees e dissertações

Abstract

Dance is developed in Education through teaching proposals in order to offer the diversity that is part of it, which justifies the research being interconnected with the concentration area of Educational Fundamentals and Practices in the Graduate Program in Education at UFTM. This dissertation was organized in an analogous way to a show, approaching its phases and associating the construction and structuring of dance in the school environment with investigations at the Graduate studies level. The objective was to investigate, from theses and dissertations, how research in the area of dance in School/Basic Education is developed. The search was due to a perception, through the researcher's professional practice, that dance might not be addressing its principles, its cultures and its educational method. The methodology used was the state of knowledge and the empirical material was interpreted by Content Analysis proposed by Moraes (1999). The search for theses and dissertations took place through the platform of the Bank of Theses and Dissertations (BDTD) with the keywords “dance”, “school” and “basic education”. Twenty-five works were detected that meet the research objective, being 15 dissertations and 10 theses, all in Portuguese, coming from the Brazilian Graduate Programs within the time frame delimited by the platform: 2002 to 2020. Of the total, ten works focus on the training and performance of the professional, seven are related to investigations on dance in general. A large part of the programs and research takes place in the South (8) and Southeast (6) regions of Brazil. The research methodology that is most evident in the studies is the exploratory, and the most used instrument is the interview. Investigations in Elementary School II are the ones that appear the most and, even timidly, there are researches using some specific modalities, such as Contemporary, Classical Ballet, Folkloric Dances and Popular Dances as proposals for acting in Basic Education. However, the grand finale of this show unfortunately does not receive a standing ovation, as there was a notorious spraying of themes among the theses and dissertations, in addition to identifying the reduced number of studies compared to other subjects included in this search platform, indicating the need for more research that addresses dance in the school environment and its different possibilities for training and performance.