Formative Research for Graduate Teachers in Dramatic Arts

Abstract

This paper shows the debate about the processes of the formative research for the graduate teachers, especially, in the area of either artistic education or dramatic arts. It also sets out the necessity to overcome the polarization between structural and voluntarist positions of this debate by understanding that research is, essentially, a way of thinking and giving sense to the world through pertinent questions for a community of practice and knowledge. The abilities and faculties involved in the statement of research problems are described. The relationship among the artistic, pedagogical and cultural aspects is defined as well as the proposal of methodological strategies to assume concretely the relationship between teaching and learning. At last, there is a call to overcome the dichotomy between methodologies and research, on the one hand; and the artistic aspects as the object of research, on the other. In this regards, it is stated that what is understood by artistic should orient the epistemological and methodological direction of the research processes.