The Democracy through Drama Summer School 2018 seeks to address a range of issues essential for democratic classrooms and schools that are facilitated by competent teachers aiming to increase student civic engagement and democratic awareness and participation. It aims at enabling teachers (including teachers with little or no experience in drama and theatre in education to work with drama practitioners and apply drama techniques to their curriculum subject areas in order to activate student voice and civic engagement.

Applied drama has developed formal techniques and tools that offer an exploration of topics, questions and issues, by ensuring that all students have voice and respect the voice and ideas of others, whilst also requiring that students reflect, listen, asses facts and offer reasons when operating under particular concepts, meanings and beliefs about rights and responsibilities, about others and about the fundamental structure of democratic societies. They also address emotional development by paying particular attention to empathy and respect.