School and theater towards a possible and required reconciliation Cover Image

Şcoala şi teatrul către o posibilă şi dorită reconciliere
School and theater towards a possible and required reconciliation

Author(s): Paul Chiribuţă
Subject(s): Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts
Published by: Universitatea de Teatru si Film »I.L. Caragiale« (UNATC)
Keywords: theatre in education; arts education curriculum; theatre – optional subject; popular education; performance/awareness; theatre techniques; personality development; emotions; body awareness; voice awareness; improving human relationships

Summary/Abstract: During the period when a student’s personality is structured, theatrical training techniques can be used to facilitate self-control, to manage the relationship between exterior and interior turmoil to have a minimal guidance in dealing with others. From that perspective, theatre’s purpose in school is not to give „shows”, but to discover the meaning and consistency of a gesture associated with a certain intention, to help the student to take conscious possession of his own body and voice, both physical and interior. Theater practice highlights the difference between people and that enriches the group and enhances personal values. It’s proven theatre classes led to positive results in the daily work of students in the classrooms. In building relationships with others, theatrical practice could make an important contribution, revealing to them the value of the words, gestures and the consciousness of their effects. I could say that theater is the most eloquent expression of popular education, a pedagogical way of structuring itself within a community. Theatre gives us a chance to come back to reality much more prepared, after having experienced its dramatic intensity. Theatre means focusing life in more vivid colors as in reality.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 1-2
  • Page Range: 48-52
  • Page Count: 5