Methodology of the Theatre with Children and Youth 3

Tutor:

Radek MARUŠÁK

Synopsis:

This course introduces students to strategies, methods and types of lessons for children's theatre ensembles. The students are introduced to the specifics of working with various developmental periods of children and the methods and lessons pursuing particular goals (searching for and working with a topic, characters, working in a space, etc.) In the final lesson the students will actively take part in a stage piece or other type of project withing the working framework of the ensemble and the proposed piece and execution their own lesson for a children's theatre ensemble.

Prerequisites:

Students employ knowledge from the Praktikum Dv 1 I, II, and Didaktika dramaticke vychovy courses.

Study Objectives:

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

- Students conscientiously select lesson types and strategies for individual phases.

- Students are able to consider their own experience, select alternatives, resolve problem situations, work with goal oriented structures.

- Students prove ability to create different lesson types for a theatre ensemble keeping in mind the inherent rules and specifics of creative theatre.

Outline and Syllabus:

Curriculum:

- Working methods in relationship to children's psychological development.

- Working strategies and types of lessons.

- Working with stage forms or other types of long-term projects with a children's ensemble.

- Student individual performances, reflections upon them and evaluation.

Syllabus:

In the first part of the course (first semester) the students will be engaged with working methods with consideration of developmental psychology. Theoretic findings will accompany lesson examples intended for particular child age groups and examples from performances by the age group. In the second part of the course, the students will be introduced to various types of lessons with different goals (preparatory exercises, researching a topic, working on characters, using improvisation and drama games.) The third semester will be dedicated to long-term continuing work on a particular topic from selecting the subject matter, to searching for content, topc, situation with potential directions towards the production.

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 magisterský dramatická výchova (subject determining qualification)