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Understanding Early School Leaving
An overview of the current situation of early school leaving in Europe
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Methodological and Pedagogical Aspects
A definition of what experiential education is
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Theatre as Experiential Learning Tool
The role of theatre as a site for learning in a community context
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Practical Examples of Theatrical Laboratories
15 proposals of theatrical laboratories
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Contractual Partners
From this section it is possible to access to a description of each contractual partner of OFF-Book Project. There are 8 partners from 3 different European countries.
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Schools
From this section it is possible to access to the information about the schools involved in the OFF-Book Project in the 3 European countries participating in the project. The school teachers and students contribute to the testing of all the intellectual outputs.
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Associated Partners
As a result of the exploitation activity a number of associated partners officially joined the project in order to contribute to the improvement of the project impact on their target groups and to ensure the project sustainability by continuing using the project deliverables in the next years.
Information & Events
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The OFF-Book project has been promoted trough conferences and articles.
Conferences
The OFF-Book project was presented in a number of events in order to report about the activities carried out and the results achieved
Press Review
The OFF-Book project partnership made contacts with web sites focusing on the fields of educationThis section of the OFF-Book portal provides administrative information for the project contractual partners and for the European Commission and it is password protected.
Teachers’ Guidelines
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The role of theatre as a site for learning in a community context and how it can provide informal learning opportunities for young people experiencing social difficulty
Theatre as Experiential Learning Tool:
Step by Step Process to Implement Theatrical Laboratories in Classroom
1.5 Theatre Games within Theatre Laboratories Qualities; Final Conclusion
- They favor the uniqueness and integrity in the development of the pupils’ personality, through a wide range of exercised concepts of socialization and inclusiveness.
- The aesthetic function of pupils’ intelligence is intensified as they make contact with the world of metaphor and fiction and gives them an incentive to study and prepare for the labor market.
- Theatre games develop creative thinking because they allow the students to find their own communication codes, to reach self-expression and to be at ease within a group with other students. This will lead to a healthy social personality of the adult to become.
- By getting aware of their thoughts, body, voice and action and by accepting the others’ actions in the group, students create aesthetical situations that lead to reflection, dialogue and constructive debate, therefore these situations help them later on to see life situations objectively.
- The analysis of attitudes and ways of resolving conflicts - from the different roles that are played - fosters their set of values and principles that will help students in social life.
- Theatre laboratories help students increase their power of taking decisions based on broader perspectives facilitated by the theatre exercises that also make them aware of the consequences of their decisions.
- The theatre laboratories facilitate the insertion in the society of the students as the group work practiced there allows students to experience participation and involvement until they actively have results, cherishing the common effort.
- Theatre games strengthen personal security because they enable the discovery of the students’ own abilities, the interaction in the game and the reliability of the peers.
- Students acquire the wonderful messages that art sends through them to their own future enhancing their expectancy and working for a better quality and harmony in their life and the life of the others.
To conclude with, we state that theatre games within Theatre laboratories prove to be a valuable asset in tackling early school leaving and absenteeism in secondary school education. They add to the acquisition of empathy, inclusion, non judgmental interaction among the students.
Online Resources
- Didáctica y teatroThe book 8 by Trozzo, Ester, Sampedro, Luis) tells us how the student’s body can be a vehicle of expression and communication, it stresses how to overcome cultural stereotypes through theatre games that make the mind flexible and develop the students as persons.
- Reading Horizons: Using Drama in the ClassroomThis work by J.Lea Smith, J.Daniel Herring shows how drama is a potentially powerful tool for connecting students with learning and content, with real life.
- Children's Theater: A Paradigm, Primer, and ResourceThis book by Kelly Eggers,Walter Eggersunderlines how theatre is a tool for teachers and students in overcoming shyness, becoming empathic and broadening their own horizon. These works present the most impacting theatre activities and games for students with a high risk of early school leaving.
- Video demonstrationHow theatre education can save the world | Rachel Harry
The following three web sites provide lessons on Theatre That Has Nothing to Do With Acting. They can help students become more assertive, more analytic, less judgemental, more empathetic and give them a holistic view of different social situations:
