THEATER IN THE LEGAL SCENARIO

Abstract

This research, as it is explicit in the title “Theatre as didactic strategy of juridical sciences teaching and learning”, is a theoretical practical study carried out in three educational institutions of the city of Santa Marta in Colombia (University of Magdalena, Cooperative University of Colombia and Sergio Arboleda University), in order to build a didactic model applicable to teaching of law where the crucial methodological tool is theatre and performing arts. Based on a comprehensive and comparative study, researchers put into practice theatre activities which has been developed and suggested by studies centres and internacional institutions as the University of Buenos Aires (Argentina) and the University of San Martín de Porres (Peru). Unesco, for example, according to international researches, has concluded that in the majority of nations arts and learning are often intertwined due to the potential of the artistic performances to become a facilitator vehicle of education in different disciplines. Thus, in correspondence with those results, the authors of this investigation undertook to formulate a didactic of theatre for teaching of law. It has been done with the certitude that it means providing to students the ability to assimilate the social and professional environment making a similar experience of the real world where, as a theatre performance, the actors mean each and every one of the people and theatre stage represents society behaviour and its legal order structures.