El teatro como asignatura en la reforma educativa de 1988, Mendoza, ArgentinaThis article focuses on the impact on Art Education of the provincial educational reform established by School Government Resolution No. 386/88 carried out in Mendoza, a province of Argentina, in 1988. This reform incorporated Theater as a subject to the official curriculum. The objective is to identify the pedagogical approach to Artistic Education prescribed by this legislation and describe the teaching model of Theater as a mandatory subject. The selected methodology was Grounded Theory, within the qualitative paradigm and was implemented through software (Atlas-ti, V 8.1) to process and triangulate the information obtained from primary sources: laws and curricular documents, surveys of teachers of the subject Theater and in-depth interviews carried out with people responsible for writing the educational documents. It is concluded that the impact of the social context was decisive in educational decisions, that the epistemological approach to artistic education of this reform was “education through art” and that this approach has determined the contents and didactic strategies of the Theater subject, as well as the role prescribed for teachers.
Keywords:
artistic education; educational reforms; theater; pedagogical approaches