STEAM and theatrical education: when engineering students play a role:

Jefferson Rodrigues-Silva; Ángel Alsina

doi:10.5585/49.2024.24694

Authors

Jefferson Rodrigues-Silva Federal Institute of Minas Gerais Campus Arcos – IFMG https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8334-2107
Ángel Alsina University of Girona https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8506-1838

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5585/49.2024.24694

Keywords:

Augusto Boal, engineering, subject-ness, STEAM education, theatre of oppressed

Abstract

Eleven mechanical engineering students participated in a STEAM (interdisciplinarity between Science, technology, engineering, Arts/Humanities, and Mathematics) drama activity of conceiving and performing a play which addressed their course. Following, we pursued a Thick Description of this project, including the meanings and intentions of the play. Accordingly, we interviewed the students so that this description could reflect their voices. As a result, we observed that the drama activity permitted learning about engineering and theatre. Moreover, it was a space to contrast the ideal and the real engineering toward society and to call students to play the role of subjects responsible for their personal, professional and political lives.

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Author Biographies

Jefferson Rodrigues-Silva, Federal Institute of Minas Gerais Campus Arcos – IFMG

Doctor in Education

Ángel Alsina, University of Girona

Full Professor from the Department of Subject-Specific Didactics and Director of the Cátedra de Didática das Matemáticas M. Antònia Canals at the University of Girona (UdG), Spain. Principal researcher of the Grup de Recerca en Educació Científica i Ambiental (GRECA) from UdG.

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