An archive on theater and education: Problematizations in the field of invention

Abstract

Inspired by the archival treatment left by the French thinker Michel Foucault, this reflection focused on the task of establishing an inventory of discursive productivity related to the field of practices that combine Theater and Education, adopting as an empirical basis, articles concerning the theme and published in 58 educational journals. The objective was to detect discontinuities, regularities, and randomness in such discursive field, culminating in looking through a critical perspective at what in the present emanates a certain air of naturalization. This inventory illuminated regular discourses, as well as clashes between so-called essentialist and contextualist approaches to Theater practices, resulting in mitigating effects of their conceptual distances.