History of Drama in Education and Theatre with Children 1

Tutor:

Eva MACHKOVÁ, Jaroslav PROVAZNÍK

Synopsis:

The course expands the awareness of the students in the area in which they have acquired a fundamental knowledge of drama training and children's theatre. This also instills individual types and currents of drama training and domestic and international personalities in the field into a context of development of education and theatre.

Prerequisites:

This instructions is linked to acquired experience with various types of drama training, particularly the instruction in „Practikum DV“, managed projects and knowledge from participating various reviews and workshops (particularly Children's theatre). The students are required to have a knowledge of the literature of the Drama training, education and theatre studies fields. Part of the course is a systematic monitoring of the development of the field and particular sources based on the field literature and other materials.

Study Objectives:

The aim of the course is a knowledge of the basic types and directions of drama training from the turn of the 19th to 20th century until the present and an introduction to the oldest phases of children's and youth theatre and their various forms and functions. Another goal is the develpment of abilities and skills in analysis of various types and concepts of drama training and to uncover their possible applications in the work of the students.

Outline and Syllabus:

> Children in the service of theatre and the theatre in the service of education and training:

- Children and youth and liturgical and educational theatre in the Middle-ages and after the Renaissance.

- Jesuit and Piarist educational theatre.

- Jan Amos Komensky and his „education through play“.

- The Enlightenment and the end of educational theatre.

> The Pre-Romantic and Romantic and children's theatre:

- Countess de Genlis and her Education theatre (théatre d' éducation).

- Revival drama for children in the Czech lands; Matěj Jozef Sychra.

> Children's theatre as a means of edification and national consciousness:

- František Pravda

- Children's performances in the Prozatím Theatre and it critical renown.

- The end of the century and the stage fairy tale trend.

> Drama training in the Century of the child:

- Reform educators and drama training.

- Henry Caldwell Cook and „The Play Way“.

- „Creative drama“ of Winifred Ward - birth of modern drama training. „Playmaking“ Geraldine Brian Siks.

- The personality of Miloslav Disman, his concept of drama training and the influence of his work on the genesis of modern Czech drama training.

> Drama training in the second half of the 20th century:

- Investigating natural children's theatre phenomena: Peter Slade.

- Drama plays as a meand of personality development: Brian Way.

- Viola Splin and her „Theatre Games“.

- Constituted modern Czech drama training in the 1960s.

- Theatre played by children reflected in a national review of children's theatre and recitation from the end of the 1960s. Reviews and workshops of middle-school theatre.

> New forms of drama training in the last quarter of the 29th century:

- „Revolution“ Dorothy Heathcote.

- Structured drama work in a so-called process (educational) drama.

- Drama training in education - changes in the field reflected in the basic programs and other curricular documents of the 1980s.

- Drama training and drama therapy.

- Theatre in training and education; participatory theatre.

- Improvisation leagues (so-called theatre sports).

Study materials:

BROCKETT, Oscar G.

1968, 1999 History of the Theatre; přel. Milan Lukeš a Zdena Benešová, Dějiny divadla (Praha: Nakladatelství Lidové noviny-Divadelní ústav, 1999)

ČERNÝ, František (ed.)

1968-1983 Dějiny českého divadla I, II, III, IV (Praha: Academia)

MACHKOVÁ, Eva

1998 Úvod do studia dramatické výchovy (Praha: IPOS ARTAMA)

1999 Metodika dramatické výchovy (Praha: IPOS ARTAMA)

PAGE, Christiane

2004 Historique du jeu dramatique (http://coursenligne.univ-artois.fr/Arts/fichiers/hist-jd.pdf)

PROVAZNÍK, Jaroslav

2006 Chrudimské kapitoly moderního dětského divadla (habilitační práce, 2006)

VALENTA, Josef

1997 Metody a techniky dramatické výchovy (Praha: Agentura STROM-Jana Hrubá)

ZYMONOVÁ, Helena

1996 „Dějiny tvořivého dramatu - pohled z USA“, Tvořivá dramatika VII, 1996, č. 3

Divadelní výchova (vyd. ÚDLUT, později ÚKVČ, Praha 1964-1974)

Tvořivá dramatika (vyd. ARTAMA ve spolupráci s STD a katedrou výchovné dramatiky DAMU, Praha, od roku 1990)

Note:

Schedule for winter semester 2009/2010:

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Schedule for summer semester 2009/2010:

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The subject is a part of the following study plans:

• Doporučený magisterský dramatická výchova (compulsory subject)