El Teatro-Foro como herramienta didáctica para el cambio educativo

This article presents an experience of educational innovation in the framework of the initial training of teachers. This innovation consists of the incorporation of techniques from the Theatre of the Oppressed, specifically the Forum-Theatre, as a didactic strategy of university education. The objective is for students to know, from a critical perspective, the educational reality, to analyze the relations of power and structures of domination in the education centers and to act for transformation in order to construct and to develop a just and democratic education. This experience was carried out during four academic courses with first year students the Degree in Primary Education at the University of Almeria. To undertake this experience, first we approached the origin, the development and the methodology of the Forum-Theatre. Later, we placed this experience of initial training in the framework of critical pedagogy, according to the purposes of the same, and more specifically in the Problemposing of Paulo Freire, approaching the possibilities offered to us by the Forum-Theatre for development. Next, it contextualizes this experience of innovation, specifying the aims of the same, the development and the topics and approached conflicts. Finally, in the paragraph of conclusions, we indicate that the dualities (theory-practice, research-teaching, educationlearning, individual learning-collective learning, etc.) must join a new model for the initial educational training that the Forum-Theatre, as methodological tool, facilitates.