“Play is a case of education that traditional schools excluded because they believed it had no functional significance,” Jean Piaget once noted. Play was considered merely a rest or a release of excess energy. This simplistic view does not explain either the importance that children attach to their games or the stable form that children's games take, the symbolic or imaginative inventions (J. Piaget - Psychology and Pedagogy).
The experiential, functional, representative aspects of a child’s knowledge and expression present in every student, the human development of cognition that leads from elementary senses, movement, and speech, to logics that contribute to the manifestation of the self, are fundamental prerequisites for a modern – progressive development of systems and methods capable of producing situations that transform stereotypical data using tools such as imitation, movement, and children's perceptions through the conversion of a mental image into action.
Events and phenomena, behaviors and needs that occupy a child should interest every educator, teacher, psychologist, and dramatist. This book attempts to move in that direction. Utilizing Theatrical Play – the pedagogy of theater as a social and cultural good.
For authentic Theatrical Play can function, from a valid and experienced facilitator, as a multi-tool, a vehicle that can contribute as a method, assisting children, guiding them towards engagement and familiarity with the theatrical phenomenon. Because theater is a complex, social, and profoundly educational art. “All the world’s a stage” (William Shakespeare), and in this stage, children cannot be absent. As long as there are still “children.”
LaKiS Kouretzis
Books by LaKiS Kouretzis published by Taxideftis: In the Beginning a Line... Only (2006), The Theatrical Play and Its Dimensions (2008), Theater and Weaving (2014).
Manufacturer
- Author
- Lakis Kouretzis
- Publisher
- Taxideytis
- Type
- Upbringing
- Language
- Greek
- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
- 294
- Release Date
- 09/03/2018
- Publication Date
- 2018
- Dimensions
- 17x24 cm
- Award
- -
- Intended for
- Special Education Teachers
- Educational Level
- -
- ISBN-13
- 9789605790868
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