Methodology

The Summer School will present a variety of comprehensive processes for teachers and drama in education practitioners. It will support curricula developments in national contexts. In addition, it will provide a record and collated evidence of drama in practice and how this methodological approach supports citizenship education, in partnership with teachers of humanities and languages and drama in education practitioners.

The School will share resources to support teachers and drama in education practitioners when exploring citizenship education. The resources will be developed by individual partner organisations and will provide stimulus materials for those using them.

A number of pedagogical approaches to citizenship education and how drama pedagogy can support this process will also be presented. The aim of this will be to enable and empower teachers and drama in education practitioners to work with young people to explore tricky issues; hear their voices; and develop citizenship education.

There will be an emphasis on effective utilisation of digital technologies and communities of practice that will permit knowledge transfer and exchange and support a collaborative approach to community building and alliances in this field, ensuring that learning is conserved and innovation is encouraged and disseminated. This model optimises the potential for collaborative learning and horizontal exchange between practitioners across a range of pedagogical strategies. This will provide a forum for transfer and exchange of knowledge, tools for learning and sharing of sound pedagogical practice in the European context.