Policy Paper - Drama Improves Lisbon Key Competences in Education

Recommendations
This seems to open the door to an analysis or contextu alisation that speaks to a holistic
approach to the child (and unites the competences into a vivid expression of how the
totality of educational theatre and drama works).
Financial resources and the application system
• Educational theatre and drama should be indicated as a priority in the following
framework programmes:
- Lifelong Learning,
- Youth in Action,
- Culture,
- Citizenship.
- Seventh Framework Programme (FP7)
• Transfer of know-how, seminars, job shadowing, international workshops, study
trips, conferences and other forms of mobility should be strongly supported in order
to help the spread of educational theatre and drama to those countries where it is
not yet well known.
• Direct support for key international organisations and networks and for some highimpact
initiatives should be considered.
• The continuation of highly-rated, effective and successful projects that achieve a
certain level of quality in their output could be granted in a semi-automatic way. The
current procedure is that if a consortium wishes to continue their co-operation they
need to re-apply after the project ends, and due to the operation of the system the
consortium is restrained in its work for at least a year,
waiting for the next decision and instalment.
The potential of such consortia, and of
the outcomes of their activities, could
be increased by a re-design of this
procedure.
• The evaluations of supported projects
should focus on content as well as
administration.
Recognition
• Build strategic partnerships with the key networks, organisations, NGOs and
professionals of the field.
• A long term strategy at the European level is needed to support educational theatre
and drama. There should be a clear message in the form of an EC Communication
or an EP Statement that all the above listed recommendations are encouraged at
national level.
• 2012 should be considered as the European Year of Arts Education, with a special
emphasis on educational theatre and drama.
• Both qualitative and quantitative research
investigating the effectiveness of educational
theatre and drama should be conducted
/ supported in order to help theatre
and drama teachers and other
practitioners to develop better and
better programmes.
Recommendations
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