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8 STORIES FOR CREATIVITY: SOCIAL INCLUSION THROUGH THEATRE

2021-1-LT01-KA220-SCH-0000241322021Cooperation partnerships in school educationfinalized
Countries: LT|IT|IE|ES · Grant: €237,190
Creativity, arts and cultureInclusion, promoting equality and non-discriminationInclusion of marginalised young people

Objectives

General objective was to use the technique of DRAMATISED IMPROVISATION as a tool to encourage divergent thinking, imagination, fantasy and above all, creativity. The teachers applied this technique so that the students became familiar with the story and its interpretation, and through the dramatization and rehearsals, we achieved the integration of the students in the work group and developed the scheme of teamwork and the assumption of new roles that arise from staging the stories. It concludes with the final staging of the story in front of the rest of the class, getting the group to act and "play the theatre game", which places the actors in an intermediate position between reality and fantasy, and it is because of this peculiarity that, through theatrical improvisations, a rupture of the fixed links between classmates is produced, which generates in the group a need to restructure new socio-affective alliances that are momentary, but can also be lasting

Background

In the 21st century some competencies are becoming more important than others. Nowadays employee should have competencies which could be used in various contexts and would allow flexibility to adapt to changing conditions. Such trend is visible not only in Lithuania, but in all European Union. In 2019 the research conducted in Lithuania revealed that in employers’ opinion graduates need stronger skills in ability to make decisions (84%), analytical thinking (77%) and creativity (59%). According to employers’ confederation, one of the most needed/wanted skills - employees’ creativity. The general objectives of our project was to establish and develop by the partners "the 8 basic stories", which were adapted to their country or region by primary and secondary school pupils with the aim of promoting inclusion and preventing early school leaving, through creativity and theatre

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