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Theater Education; Visual Impairment; Multisensory Theater.
This dissertation investigates the construction of multisensory pedagogical prac
tices in Theatre education, with an emphasis on the effective participation of stu
dents with visual impairments. Adopting a qualitative approach and grounded
in intervention research methodology, the study was developed at the Centro de
Apoio Pedagógico Iapissara Aguiar (CAP-RN) through the implementation of thea
tre workshops focused on the creation of multisensory scenes with six students
with visual impairments. The central objective is to analyze the contributions of a
pedagogical-theatrical proposal built from the perspective of multisensory scene
creation, considering the creative processes of students with visual impairments.
To this end, the study is theoretically grounded in phenomenological conceptions,
based on the understanding that perception is a bodily and relational phenome
non constituted through the interaction of different senses. The research engages
in dialogue with paradigms surrounding visual impairment by recognizing that
the construction of images and meanings extends beyond visual perception, en
compassing forms of sensory apprehension that move between the visible and
the non-visible. The results indicate multisensoriality as a powerful creative and
pedagogical element, capable of enhancing the protagonism of students with
visual impairments in teaching and theatrical creation processes. In addition to
contributing to the field of Theatre education, the research reaffirms the urgency
of breaking with pedagogically exclusionary models that render diverse bodies
and experiences invisible, pointing toward pathways for a Theatre pedagogy that
recognizes and values the plurality of subjects.