A rather extensive list of videos and interviews by the world's leading thinkers on a range of topics and contemporary challenges. The content is taken from the Institute of Arts and Ideas initiative.
Τhe IAI seeks to challenge the notion that our present accepted wisdom is the truth. It aims to uncover the flaws and limitations in our current thinking in search of alternative and better ways to hold the world.
A rather extensive list of videos and interviews by the world's leading thinkers on a range of topics and contemporary challenges. The content is taken from the Institute of Arts and Ideas initiative.
Τhe IAI seeks to challenge the notion that our present accepted wisdom is the truth. It aims to uncover the flaws and limitations in our current thinking in search of alternative and better ways to hold the world.
Adam Bethlenfalvy of InSite Drama offering a short intro to Drama in Education its aims and its role in the Drama in Education Erasmus+ project
The Democracy through Drama project investigates the use of Drama and Mimesis in Education in facilitating democratic classrooms. The workshop was led by Chris Bolton (Birmingham City University) as part of the Democracy through Drama Summer School in Budapest in July 2019, organised by InSite Drama.
Video recording and editing: Tamás Benkó
Christopher Bolton of Birmingham City University offering a short intro to Process Drama and its role in the Democracy through Drama Erasmus+ project
This is a DemoDram template to support the developing of workshop ideas by teachers, facilitators, etc. Headings of categories are suggestive and may not apply to all ideas tried and produced.
This document aims to explain the methodological groundings of the approaches used in the Democracy through Drama project. In line with the conceptual and pedagogical framework (see also in the resources section), our intention is to make this work of practical use to teachers and educators.
The following thirty pages focus on the central concepts and theoretical groundings of the pedagogies used in the project. Following this introduction, the second section discusses the concept of democracy and connections are made between democracy and education, reflecting on the question of how democracy can be taught. This is followed in the third section by a discussion of the possible role of Drama in Education and Mimesis in democracy education, and the approaches advocated in the project will be contextualised within the wider field of drama education.
The Open Education Resources of the Democracy through Drama project offer examples of how drama
has been used to support teaching in the humanities, languages and the arts through practical explorations
of curricula within the classroom. It is intended that this document provides a usable resource
for teachers so that they can implement drama in their classrooms to enhance their practice.
The workshop aims to explore a short part of a classic text from the Metamorphoses by Ovid. Participants
create depictions based on the text and then turn these into contemporary situations. The aim is to find
the contemporary connections to a classic text through working with image and situation.
This workshop plays with the idea of using a lesser known text from an iconic Hungarian poet and placing it
at the centre of a completely new situation. The drama develops around a graffiti appearing in the schoolyard
during the night. It looks at the text from different perspectives and explores responsibilities of teachers,
students and those who might have written such a text. The poem titled Crossroads touches on the subject
of choices and also mentions suicide, so it raises questions of mental health and teenage life choices.
This workshop has been designed and implemented in the framework of teaching Homer’s Iliad to Year
2, Junior High School pupils in Ellinogermaniki Agogi. Students worked extensively with the device of
still images.
The focus is the conflict between Achilles and Agamemnon, concerning Chryseis’ return to her father.
During their English class students read texts relevant to current affairs, more specifically they read
a text on the topic of immigrants and refugees. This particular extract is taken from Unit 13 (Crossing
Borders) in The New Outsiders by A. Kane (2009). The intended level of lexical difficulty of the text
is C1, according to the Common European Framework for Languages. On this text and the ideas
expressed, drama techniques will be applied. Students will select three moments/images of the text
The workshop explores the themes of fear of losing a battle, fear of not managing to fulfill a
promise to oneself and to the community. Moreover, it explores the issue of fear of superheroes.
Do superheroes have human features (like fear, for example) or not? Do they have doubts about
their own abilities?
The workshop is based on an approach to the Greek Classical Myth of Theseus and the Minotaur.
Η βασική ιδέα ήταν, στο πλαίσιο του μαθήματος της Ιλιάδας, οι μαθητές να δραματοποιήσουν/αναπαρα-
στήσουν με την τεχνική των παγωμένων ή ακίνητων εικόνων τη σκηνή της σύγκρουσης του Αχιλλέα με
τον Αγαμέμνονα για την επιστροφή της Χρυσηίδας στον πατέρα της.
The workshop offers a framework for the exploration, analysis and transformation of documents from
the time of The Great Depression of the 1930’s in the United States of America.
The facilitator offers the frame of creating one huge image that condenses different causes and impacts
of this complex historical event. She/he offers some resources to investigate the period.
The lesson could build into a series of lessons that are developed from this simple idea.
A series of detailed videos (4 sessions) offering useful insights and instructions on how to submit a successful ERASMUS+ KA1 application
IDEA is an association of individuals and professional associations supporting and promoting drama/theatre and education. IDEA is open to regional and international associations and to other institutes, bodies, networks, organisations, schools, universities and individuals working in drama/theatre and education. We represent drama/theatre and education in a world context.
Journey to a democratic classroom: A teacher of English working with DemoDram tools.
The workshop is in two parts, the first part is an exploration of the world of a 14-year-old boy. The participants watch a morning in the boy’s life when he should be at school, making decisions about why he acts as he does. At the end of this domestic scene the boy takes a kitchen knife, puts it in his pocket and leaves. The second part the participants examine how a drama lesson can help young people address some of the issues young people are facing through the dramatization of a fictional event.
Nele Wilems & Sara Lembrechts of KeKi on democracy in the classroom and how to introduce strategies to evaluate a journey towards a more democratic environment in school education.
During the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown both authors were experimenting with facilitating longer complex process dramas on online platforms. We offered participants the opportunity to reflect on the situation we were facing as individuals, as a society and as humanity. We worked with different levels of university students in two different languages and in two different countries.
This documentary short film, about a coast guard captain on a small Greek island who is suddenly charged with saving thousands of refugees from drowning at sea, was nominated for a 2017 Academy Award.
For students, the film can put human faces on what can sometimes feel like an abstract or political issue, the world’s refugee crisis.
This documentary short film, about a coast guard captain on a small Greek island who is suddenly charged with saving thousands of refugees from drowning at sea, was nominated for a 2017 Academy Award.
For students, the film can put human faces on what can sometimes feel like an abstract or political issue, the world’s refugee crisis.
The most indestructible, everlasting and insurmountable Wall among us is invisible... The Invisible Wall or different ways to spend your summer on a small island. A video on the refugee problem and how it affects aspects of our lives. Strong images
Το πιο άφθαρτο, αέναο και ανυπέρβλητο τείχος ανάμεσα μας είναι αόρατο... Το Αόρατο Τείχος ή διαφορετικοί τρόποι να περάσετε το καλοκαίρι σας σε ένα μικρό νησί.
The most indestructible, everlasting and insurmountable Wall among us is invisible... The Invisible Wall or different ways to spend your summer on a small island. A video on the refugee problem and how it affects aspects of our lives. Strong images
Το πιο άφθαρτο, αέναο και ανυπέρβλητο τείχος ανάμεσα μας είναι αόρατο... Το Αόρατο Τείχος ή διαφορετικοί τρόποι να περάσετε το καλοκαίρι σας σε ένα μικρό νησί.
Welcome to this travel journal. You are about to embark on an eventful journey from Budapest towards a democratic classroom. Odysseus, one of the epic heroes in ancient Greek mythology, will be one of your guides on this voyage. He invites you to use this journal to ask questions, plan your goals, write down your struggles and formulate actions to reach your goals.