History of Drama in Education and Theatre with Children 2

Tutor:

Eva MACHKOVÁ, Jaroslav PROVAZNÍK

Synopsis:

This course expands awareness of the students in the field, in which they have a fundamental knowledge of drama training and children's theatre theory. It presents the individual types of and currents in drama training, as well as domestic and international significant figures in the field in a context of the development of education and theatre.

Prerequisites:

Instruction links into the acquired experience with various types of drama training, particularly Practical Drama Training and the framework of arranged practicals and knowledge from reviews and workshops (particularly Children's stage). The students should have a knowledge of fundamental drama training literature, education and theatre studies. A part of the work in this course is a systematic tracing the development of the field and personal procedures based on the literature and other materials.

Study Objectives:

The goal of the course is a knowledge of the fundamental types and branches of drama training from the turn of the 19th to 20th century to the present and an introduction to the oldest phases children's theatre and its various forms and functions. Another goal is the development of skills and abilities in analysing various drama training types and concepts and discover their application possibilities in students' practice.

Outline and Syllabus:

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

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

- Jesuit and Piarist school theatre.

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

- Enlightenment and the end of school theatre.

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

- Hrabenka de Genlis and her „Theatre d'education“.

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

> Children's theatre as a vehicle for education and national consciousness:

- František Pravda

- Children's performances in the Prozatím theatre and its critical acclaim.

- End of the century and fashion of stage fairy-tales.

> Drama training in the „centry of the child“

- Reformist education and drama training.

- Henry Caldwell Cook and his „path of play“.

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

- The personality of Miloslav Disman and his concept of drama training and the influence of his work on the rise of moder Czech Drama training.

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

- The search for natural children's theatrical talent: Peter Slade.

- Drama plays as a means of developing the personality: Brian Way.

- Viola Spolin and her „Theatre Games“.

- Constitutive modern Czech drama training in the 1960s.

- Chidren's theatre in the mirror of a national review of children's theatre and children's performance from the end of the 1960s. Middle-school reviews and workshops.

> New forms of drama training in the last quarter of the 20th century:

- „Revolution“ Dorothy Heathcote.

- Structuring drama practice and the so-called Process (school) drama.

- Drama training in schools - changes in the field in the light of the outline, program and further curricular documents from the 1980s.

- Drama training and dramatherapy.

- Theatre in education and instruction; participatory theatre.

- Improvisational 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:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

Schedule for summer semester 2009/2010:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

The subject is a part of the following study plans:

• Doporučený magisterský dramatická výchova (compulsory subject)