Introduction to Drama in Education 1

Tutor:

Eva MACHKOVÁ

Synopsis:

A Single-semester course intended to guide the students in drama training issues, study composition and the most significant concepts of the subject. This starts from the previous practice and instruction of the students' to-date study and is adapted to it.

Prerequisites:

Regular attendance and active participation in discussions and in resolving issues are required. As well the ability to individually formulate and contribute with personal experience to the profession.

Study Objectives:

The aim of the study is to initiate in the students a conceptual consideration of drama training, activate students in discussion and in dealing with given issues and guide them to an understanding of the relation of drama training to the theory and practical discipline (the instructor, psychology, acting, etc.) As well to an awareness of the structure of drama training and its various organizational forms.

Outline and Syllabus:

1. Drama training instructor

Survey on the topic, „What will make me capable in the drama training profession?“, discussion bases about the individual elements of equiping a drama training instructor with abilities, general and specific knowledge and skills, personal characteristics (communcative, empathetic, tolerant), relationships to children and adults, relationship to the theatre and drama training, musicality.

2. Fundamental concepts of drama training

Experience, play, creativity, partnership, role plays, improvisation, pantomime, games and exercises, dramatic structuring, children's theatre, process and product.

3. Drama training structure

Theory and practical disciplines from which drama training originates, educational goals, theatre resources. Present pedagogy and education, psychology and it individual parts and branches. Acting and its methodology as a drama training resource. Transformation of knowledge from other brnaches for use in drama training.

4. Interbranch character Drama training

The merging of knowledge from various disciplines of Drama training, literature, the arts and social sciences as a source of topics for drama training. Branches close to drama training or employing similar or the same methods (psychodrama, drama therapy, experiential education, etc.), the specifics of Drama training.

5. Organizational forms of drama training

Special interest drama training, drama circles, ensembles, Arts elementary schools. Drama training in schools, Drama training as an independent subject (required, elective), drama methods in the instruction of other subjects (particularly history, civic and family culture, literature).

Study materials:

KOŤÁTKOVÁ, Soňa-Jaroslav PROVAZNÍK, Krista BLÁHOVÁ, Radka SVOBODOVÁ, Anna TOMKOVÁ

1998 Vybrané kapitoly z dramatické výchovy (Praha: Karolinum)

MACHKOVÁ Eva

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

1999 Metodika dramatické výchovy (Praha: IPOS ARTAMA)

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)