Resumo:
This thesis aims to propose the creation and teaching of the discipline “Popular Cultures” for
the Theater Technical Course of the Centro Estadual de Educação Profissional Isaías Alves
(ICEIA), in the State Education Network in the city of Salvador, Bahia, presenting as a
suggestion a Teaching Plan aimed at popular and theatrical education in a perspective of
curricular change for that course is feasible. It traces a historical-social-educational panorama
about Art-Education in contemporary times, discussing and analyzing the current and
different trends and conceptions of the teaching of Art in education. In addition, it brings
current approaches to the concepts of culture, folklore, mass culture, erudite culture, cultural
identity, popular cultures and how these concepts can bring significant contributions to the
teaching proposal of the discipline “Popular Cultures”. Through the themes
“Multiculturality”/”Interculturality” it enables analyzes from the point of view of
contemporary authors and researchers, their concepts and their common characteristics in the
search for an egalitarian and inclusive education. Finally, the research describes the practical
and pedagogical experience of the students that culminated in the scenic show which was all
held and worked in a virtual way, bringing to the center of the discussions a new model of
Theater teaching during the COVID 19 virus pandemic whose The objective was to work
with Popular Cultures providing students with theoretical and practical experiments and
affirming the importance and artistic and theatrical contribution of a discipline of this nature
to the ICEIA Technical Theater Course and also to the school