Dramatic Methods applied to socio-educacional interventions regarding Self-Management and Acounting.

Abstract

The objective of the research is to find out what contributions that the use of dramatic techniques can provide within socio-educational interventions of Democratic Management and Accounting in the context of non-formal education. Initially, it presents a theoretical study on two dramatic methods commonly used in educational practices. The first one is the Role-Playing (PR), which already is applied in Higher Accounting Education. Another method discussed is the Theatre of the Oppressed (TO), designed and developed by the recognized theater studious Augusto Boal. As a way of studying the benefits of the use of these methods of drama in the teaching of Accounting, were made an experimental workshop in Technology Incubator of Popular Cooperatives at the University of São Paulo (ITCP-USP), active institution in the movement of Solidary Economics (ES). It was found with the search the effectiveness of the methods of drama used to experience and understanding of processes related to the management. Experience with the TO and RP provided collective reflection on the roles made in an organization and showed the technical character of the accounting knowledge perceived by the participants.