Methodology of the Theatre with Children and Youth 2

Tutor:

Radek MARUŠÁK

Synopsis:

This course introduces students to strategies, methods and types of lessons for preparing to work with a children's theatre ensemble. The students will get to know the specific characteristics of the work with the various developmental periods of children and methods and lessons according to particular goals (searching for and working on a topic, characters, working in a space, etc.). In the final lesson of the course, the students will actively participate in work towards a stage form or other type of project work withing the framework of an ensemble, propose and execute their own lesson for a children's theatre ensemble.

Prerequisites:

Students employ knowledge from courses Drama training Practical I, II and Didactics of drama training.

Study Objectives:

- Students are able to select work methods with consideration of age and developmental characteristics of the children.

- Students consciously select a strategy and type of lesson in individual phases of their work.

- Students are able to reflect upon their own experience, select alternative paths, resolve problematic situations, actively work in target structures.

- Students demonstrate ability to create different types of lessons for a theatre ensemble with consideration of the inherent rules and special characteristics of creative theatre.

Outline and Syllabus:

Curriculum:

- Methodic work in relationship to psychological development of the children.

- Strategies and types of lessons.

- Working on the stage form or other types of long-term projets with a children's ensemble.

- Independent progress of the students and the reflection upon and evaluation of it.

Syllabus:

In the first part of the course (first semester) the students will deal with methodic work from the viewpoint of developmental psychology. Confirmation of theory will accompany samples of lessons for particular age groups of children and samples of theatre performances of the considered age group. In the second part of the course the students will be introduced to various lessons with various aims (preparatory exercises, searching for a topic, working on characters, use of improvisation and drama plays). The third seminar will be devoted to long-term continued work on a particular topic from the selection of the subject matter, to the search for content, topics, situations while moving towards the final product.

Study materials:

DISMAN, Miroslav

1976 Receptář dramatické výchovy (Praha: SPN)

MLEJNEK, Josef

1997 Dětská tvořivá hra (Praha: IPOS-ARTAMA - 2. přeprac. vyd.)

KONÝVKOVÁ, Irena

1998 „Kroky a hledání při práci s dětským divadelním souborem“, Tvořivá dramatika IX, 1998, č. 2-3

PALARČÍKOVÁ, Alena

2001 Tygr v oku aneb O tvorbě inscenace s dětmi a mládeží (Praha: Sdružení pro tvořivou dramatiku-Společnost Amatérské divadlo a svět)

SLAVÍK, Mirek

1996 Cesta k divadelnímu tvaru s dětským souborem (Praha: IPOS-ARTAMA)

WAY, Brian

1967 Development Through Drama; přel. Eva Machková, Rozvoj osobnosti dramatickou improvizací (Praha: ISV nakladatelství, 1996)

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 bakalářský dramatická výchova - komb. (subject determining qualification)