Danças circulares e formação de educadoras: entrelaçamentos do sentir e do agir

Abstract

The aim of this research is to investigate the potential of a Circular Dance’s course to education’s professionals in order to verify if the experience of Circular Dances mobilizes the participant's sensitivity to reflect positively on their lives and actions at school and in the classroom. This is a case’s study in which the subjects studied were teachers and managers participating in the Pampa Circular Extension Project - Circular Dances in the Pampa in the year 2016. The educator’s words of the same, obtained through semi-structured interviews, written records and participant observation, showed that the feelings of tranquility, joy, creativity and integration, mobilized by the Circular Dances, were also transposed into their lives and actions in their work environments. The educators see possibilities of taking the Circular Dances to the schools, with the purpose of to stimulate the movement, cultivate the sensibility and integrate the school community, highlighting values and principles that, in our reading, guide an integral human education.