This course will introduce key concepts and developments in the practice and pedagogy of drama as an artistic medium for engaged and collaborative learning. Through group improvisations that engage students in drama conventions and practices, students will participate in thematic and issue-based processes of storytelling, scenario-building and symbolic creativity to understand how drama operates aesthetically and pedagogically as a creative, engaged and empowering process. It will draw from the critical perspectives of drama philosophers, educators and practitioners such as John O’Toole, Augusto Boal, Helen Nicholson, Kuo Pao Kun and Kok Heng Leun, introducing frameworks and methodologies that enable student teachers to develop skills and capacities in how to apply and use drama as a medium that enhances socio-cultural and aesthetic engagement, reflexivity and agency. In varying contexts drama has been used for: artistic communication, personal development, meaning-making and empowerment. Student teachers will come to understand a range of philosophical viewpoints relating to the educative purpose and power of drama and how they are realized in practice.
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Year Taken: AY 17/18, Sem 2
Grade: A-It’s an NIE module with no finals. Might not be called AAU28A anymore but the course name should be the same. This is SO FUN. I loved it. I looked forward to the 3 hours every single week. We get to enter a rehearsal room, take of our shoes, learn how drama allows/facilitates learning (theoretical/lecture 1h) and then have a practical lesson where we will play the games mentioned or have some sort of stimulation (1h – 1.5h) followed by a discussion. I really loved it. Everyone should try this series of NIE modules once.
I think it’s 40% pair work (20% lesson plan + presentation; 20% actual stimulation of the lesson plan) and 60% journals (7 500-word journals 10% each). Just need to be consistent in writing your journals weekly (pls don’t leave everything to the last minute like me, it’s very stressful). How to score is to do well in your journals. Read the readings provided and apply them to critically analyze the theory taught that particular week. Be sure to bring in an example that you’ve seen or experienced.
Fun module to take and SU with minimum effort. Otherwise sufficient effort is needed to score decently because class size is quite small? Mine was about 14.This review was reposted with the kind permission of Denise. Originally published at https://themediumcarrier.wordpress.com/2018/12/11/ntu-modules-electives-review/
June 29, 2021
