ATIVIDADES CIRCENSES: DIÁLOGOS E REFLEXOS NO CONTEXTO ESCOLAR

Abstract

The general objective of this research is to understand the circus activities in the extracurricular context of the school through the tools made available by the Art and Culture project of the Municipal Education Network (REME), coordinated by the Sports, Art and Culture Division (DEAC), linked to the Municipal Department of Education (SEMED), in the municipality of Campo Grande, in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul. The intention was to draw up some analyses about circus pedagogical practices in the school context, besides bringing information and attributions that align the project, identifying the impressions pertinent to the body. We used as a tool part of Michel Foucault's references in the search for understanding the spaces in which the relationships of knowledge and power are exercised over the bodies, problematizing the use of circus modalities. This study is linked to the Group of Studies and Academic Research in Foucaultians Referentials, of the Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul (GEIARF/UFMS/CNPq). Thus, it was developed through procedures such as analysis of institutional documents, questionnaire with a director, semi-structured interviews with professors, manager and technical team of the project, and images. Among the results, we observed that the circus activities contribute, in a singular way, with the institutions analyzed for a greater approach to cultural practices, which characterizes as an important differential for these schools. In both schools, we noticed the predominance of girls in classes and some differences in the participation of some circus modalities in relation to gender. The acceptance of the schools, the project and the school community has been proving satisfactory in relation to the circus activities because it is a space permeated by subjects, with attributions in relation to the school institutions and their network of connections that are configured in the spaces, guaranteeing the permanence of the students in the school with extracurricular activities, since the body needs to be useful and assigned to the activities with occupation of the schedules. On the other hand, we recognize that the circus, as a cultural manifestation, enters the school reality with challenges. We hope that these issues may, perhaps, enable local dialogues, as well as with other researchers and artists, since in the municipality of Campo Grande little research is done on this theme