Theory and History of Drama in Education and Children's Theatre 4

Tutor:

Eva MACHKOVÁ, Jaroslav PROVAZNÍK

Synopsis:

This course expands - primarily based on the student's own experience - knowledge regarding the structure of the subject and it possibilities, goals, methods, techniques and forms. The subject matter over drama education theory is constantly instilled into a historic context so the student acquires an overview of the basic periods of the development of drama education.

Prerequisites:

Instruction continues on the acquired experience with various types of drama education, particularly in the „Drama Training Practical“ instruction within the framework of guided practice and knowledge from participation in various reviews and workshops (particularly Children's theatre). The student is presumed to have a knowledge of Drama education, pedagogy and theatre studies. Sections of the coursework include observing the development of the profession and one's own approach based on subject literature and other materials.

Study Objectives:

The goal of the course is an orientation in the fundamental types and directions of drama training from the turn of the 19th to 20th until the present and an introduction to the most significant persons in the field. Another aim is to denominate and classify knowledge in the field based on to date study and one's own experience. To develop abilities and skills in analysing various types and concepts of drama training and bring the students to a greater understanding of their relationship, reasons and conseqences. This will include an ability to orally and in written form to formulate theory knowledge and define fundamental concepts.

Outline and Syllabus:

> Drama training as a system.

> The relationship of drama training to other disciplines.

> Theatre and drama as sources of content and methods for drama training.

> The play, its essence and classification of plays, the play as a free activity and play managment in the framework of education and training, plays and acting.

> Fundamental principles of modern acting and their application in drama training methods.

> Playing in a role and its application in education and training.

> Improvisation and interpretation.

> Creativity

> History of Drama training and children's theatre:

- Children and youths and liturgical and school theatre in the middle ages and the Renaissance.

- Jesuit and Piaristic school theatre.

- Komensky and his „School of Play.“

- Revival of drama for children in the Czech Republic.

- The end of the century and the trend of staged fairy tales.

- Drama training in the „Century of the Child“ - reform movments and Drama training in the Czech Republic and in the world: „Creative drama“ - Winifred Ward - the birth of drama training. Miloslav Disman.

- Drama training in the second half of the 20th century in the world: Drama improvisation as a means of developing the personality (Brian Way). The Drama play and children's acting; Viola Spolin and her „Theatre Games“. „Revolution“ - Dorothy Heathcote. Structured drama practice and so-called process (school) drama. Applied drama training - drma training methods in other subjects.

- Czech drama training and children's theatre and recital in the seond half of the 20th century: Children's puppet theatre and its impulses for the ride of modern Czech drama training. The beginnings of modern Czech children's theatre. The constitution of modern Czech drama training in the 1960s. Children's theatre as reflected in national reviews of children's theatre and recitals from the end of the 1960s.

- Drama training in the Czech Republic and in the world at the turn of the century: Drama training in school. Theatre in education and training. Improvisational leagues. World and International children's theatre festivals and workshops.

- Czech and foreign professional periodicals about drama training.

Study materials:

BOLTON, Gavin

1979 Towards a Theory of Drama in Education (London: Longman)

CAILLOIS, Roger

1958 Les Jeux et les Hommes; přel. Nina Vangeli, Hry a lidé (Praha: Nakladatelství Studia Ypsilon, 1998)

HLAVSA, Jaroslav a kol.

1981 Psychologické problémy výchovy k tvořivosti (Praha: SPN)

MACHKOVÁ, Eva

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

MORGAN(OVÁ), Norah-SAXTON(OVÁ), Juliana

1987 Teaching drama. A mind of many wonders; přel. Helena Zymonová a Jaroslav Provazník, Vyučování dramatu. Hlava plná nápadů (Praha: Sdružení pro tvořivou dramatiku, Praha, 2001)

PAGE, Christiane

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

PROVAZNÍK, Jaroslav

1998 „K některým otázkám teorie a didaktiky dramatické výchovy“, in Koťátková, Soňa a kol., Vybrané kapitoly z dramatické výchovy (Praha: Karolinum)

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

PROVAZNÍK, Jaroslav (ed.)

2001 Dramatická výchova a dítě v bludišti dnešního světa (Praha: STD-KVD DAMU)

SVOZILOVÁ, Dana

2005 Strukturovaná dramatická hra v kontextu dramatické výchovy (Brno: JAMU)

ŠPALKOVÁ, Dominika

2002 Hra, herectví a děti. Některé zdroje, podmínky a možnosti dětského dramatického projevu v konfrontaci s prvky herectví (diplomová práce KVD DAMU)

VALENTA, Josef

1995 Kapitoly z teorie výchovné dramatiky. Hraní rolí ve výchově a vyučování (s hlavním zřetelem k výchovné dramatice). Dramatická výchova a rozvoj sebevědomí (Praha: ISV nakladatelství, 1995)

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

ZICH, Otakar

1987 Estetika dramatického umění. Teoretická dramaturgie (Praha, Panorama - 2. vyd.)

ZYMONOVÁ, Helena

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

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 - dvouleté komb. (main subject)