Psychology and Drama in Education 2

Tutor:

Martin SEDLÁČEK

Synopsis:

This is a course in psychology and its practical use for teachers in drama education. It contains an overview of psychology, lay-out and understanding of psychology terminology, familiarization with the fundamental directions in psychology, their paradigms and transference, psychological disciplines (developmental psychololgy, social psychology, etc.), as well as self-testing, psychological tests and questionnaires, methods of drama therapy a psychotherapy focused on the body.

Prerequisites:

Students should be able to orient themselves in the fundamentals of psychology concepts, capable of specifying individual development periods in relationship to drama education, and able to describe fundamental personality type theory and apply them in the pedagogical process. Part of the exam is a defense of the individual work.

Study Objectives:

The aim is to provide students with a sufficient orientation in psychology for use in their pedagogical practice. To generate the ability to create a sensible and relevant definition of psychological phenomena based on their knowledge and knowledge of the literature. To identify personality development and developmental specifics of particular target groups in drama education (young students, retirees, etc.) To understand the behaviour of difficult children and expand the possibilities to manage that behaviour. Among other goals are a better acquaintance of students with the concept of personality type, learning to select an appropriate approach based on the knowledge of individual personality types. Finally, to map the border between psychotherapy and drama education.

Outline and Syllabus:

Outline::

- Psychology

- General psychology (mental phenomena and processes)

- The methodology of psychology, methods of researching mental and social phenomena.

- Personality type diagnostics

- Fundamentals of developmental psychology.

- Fundamentals of the psychology of personality types

- Fundamentals of social psychology

- Applied psychology, pedagogical psychology and the psychology of actors.

- Mental problems and psychopathology, crisis intervention.

- Drama education and psychotherapy.

- Additional contributions of psychology to Drama education, Fairy-tale archetypes and psychotherapy focused on the body.

Syllabus:

1. Psychology: psychology as a science, most important moments in the history of psychology, psychology paradigms, pluralism in psychology, fundamental psychology directions, fundamental psychology terminology, concept definitions, determination of paradigms.

2. General psychology: the psyche - experience, acquaintance, feeling and strength, behaviour, conduct, word and expression. Concepts of consciousnes and subconscious. Mental processes and disposition, intelligence, memory and will.

3. Methodology of psychology: quantitative and qualitative research, research methods, experiments, observations, analysis of effective steps. Research in Drama education.

4. Diagnosing personality types.

5. Fundamentals of developmental psychology.

6. Fundamentals of the psychology of personality.

7. Fundamentals of social psychology.

8. Applied psychology.

9. Mental problems and psychopathology, crisis intervention: problem versus sickness, fundamental classification of psychopathology, psychosis, neurosis and personality disorders. Difficult life situations and principles of crisis intervention.

10. Drama education and psychotherapy: Directions in psychotherapy, transference and counter-transference, psychodrama, drama therapy and drama education. Ethics in psychotherapy and drama education.

11. Fairy-tale archetypes and psychotherapy focused on the body: an archetype and its role in a story, fairy-tale analysis and archetypal transposition of the story. The role of symbols.

12. The body in psychotherapy and theatre, personal experience lesson, grounding, chasms, sitting. A. Pesso and the Pesso-Boyden Psychomotor system in relationship to structured drama.

Study materials:

ATKINSON(OVÁ), Rita L.-ATKINSON, Richard C.-SMITH, Edward E.-BEM, Daryl J.- NOLEN-HOEKSEMA(OVÄ), Susan

1953 Hilgard´s Introduction to Psychology; přel. Erik Herman, Miroslav Petržela, Dagmar Brejlová, Psychologie (Praha: Victoria Publishing, 1995)

ČÁP, Jan

1993 Psychologie výchovy a vyučování (Praha: Univerzita Karlova-H & H)

DRAPELA, Victor J.

1987 Review of personality theories; přel. Karel Balcar, Přehled teorií osobnosti (Praha: Portál, 1997)

GILLERNOVÁ, Ilona

2000 Slovník základních pojmů z psychologie (Praha: Fortuna)

GILLERNOVÁ, Ilona-BURIÁNEK, Jiří

1995 Základy psychologie, sociologie. Základy společenských věd (Praha: Fortuna)

HAYES(OVÁ), Nicky

1993 Principles of social psychology; přel. Irena Štěpaníková, Základy sociální psychologie (Praha: Porátl, 1998)

2001 Applied psychology; přel. Dagmar Brejlová, Aplikovaná psychologie (Praha: Portál 2003)

HELUS, Zdeněk

1995 Psychologie pro střední školy (Praha: Fortuna)

HOSKOVEC, Milan-NAKONEČNÝ, Milan-SEDLÁKOVÁ, Miluše

1993 Psychologie XX. století I (Praha: Karolinum)

JANOUŠEK, Jaromír-HOSKOVEC, Jiří-ŠTIKAR, Jiří

1993 Psychologický výkladový atlas (Praha: Karolinum-Academia)

NAKONEČNÝ, Milan

1995 Lexikon psychologie (Praha: Vodnář)

2003 Úvod do psychologie (Praha: Academia)

ŘÍČAN, Pavel

2005 Psychologie (Praha: Portál)

VÁGNEROVÁ, Marie

2000 Vývojová psychologie. Dětství, dospělost, stáří (Praha: Portál)

VÝROST, Jozef-SLAMĚNÍK, Ivan

1997 Sociální psychologie = Sociálna psychológia (Praha: ISV)

Note:

Schedule for winter semester 2008/2009:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

Schedule for summer semester 2008/2009:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

The subject is a part of the following study plans:

• Doporučený magisterský dramatická výchova (compulsory subject)