Abstract

MORAL-BARRIGUETE, Cristina del  and  GUIJARRO, Belén Massó. Applied theatre in higher education: an innovative project for the initial training of educators. Educ. Form. [online]. 2022, vol.7, e5528.  Epub Dec 01, 2021. ISSN 2448-3583.  https://doi.org/10.25053/redufor.v7i1.e5528.

Drama presents multiple possibilities for promoting and enhancing communication, literary, and emotional skills in future educators. Theatre and dramatization have a direct impact on affectivity, provoking truly significant learning with a capacity for transformation, within a playful environment. In this paper, we present the design of an innovative proposal in the university context, which introduces theatre as an educational strategy in the four bachelor’s degrees taught in the Faculty of Education (Pre-School Education, Primary Education, Social Education and Pedagogy) at the University of Granada (Spain). This project is implemented by an interdisciplinary team composed of education specialists and drama specialists. The starting point for this work emerges from confidence in the potential of education and communication through words, and also through arts. The fundamental objective is to develop new curricular competencies in the participating students that might be essential to transform the current society in crisis. The expected results of this project would help to achieve a full creative and emotional linguistic-literary education, helped by the impulse and animation to the reading of literary, philosophical, and social texts while showing commitment to the complex and diverse society of today.

Keywords : Applied Theatre; Theatre in Education; Educational Innovation; University; Curricular Competencies.

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