Policy Paper - Drama Improves Lisbon Key Competences in Education

permanent staff, just as is the case for music, visual arts and other subject areas
• Support community theatre and drama work to encourage trust and help within the
local community for the school
• Use theatre and drama forms and methods in other subjects in order to teach
children in an innovative and creative way across the curriculum
• Invite theatre and drama teachers to develop a programme that has its focus on
increasing self-confidence of students
Inviting educational theatre and drama initiatives
into schools
Supporting civil society projects on educational
theatre and drama
Supporting revival of local cultural heritage through
local arts centres
Introducing local calls for educational theatre and
drama tenders
2 Increasing concern about social cohesion and
developing democratic citizenship
1 Issuing an online theatre and drama newsletter
for educators
1 Lobbying relevant government representatives
and decision-makers
1 Supporting civil society projects on educational
theatre and drama
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R e s u l t s
4. Ways national education policies, municipalities, and EU could
support the development of educational theatre and drama,
according to key experts responding to the survey
Educational policy in general:
Making theatre and drama a compulsory subject in
the curriculum
Providing theatre and drama training for practising
teachers
National education policy:
8 Making theatre and drama a compulsory
subject in the curriculum
4 Providing theatre and drama training for
teachers
4
2
Providing extra-curricular theatre and drama-work
in schools
Giving financial support and providing advice on
how drama in schools can be used as a personal
development tool
1 Establishing international educational theatre
and drama centres
1 Putting more energy into general competences
and profound learning
Table 23. Recommendations for education, municipalities and EU policies in supporting the development of
educational theatre and drama, and the frequency of their appearance in the experts’ survey
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R e s u l t s
Introducing voluntary course in teachers’ training 2 Supporting external evaluation of, and
research on, educational theatre and drama
1
Developing university programme for training
educational theatre and drama teachers
2 Giving all teachers a basic competence in
educational theatre and drama
1
Investing more money in educational theatre and
drama development
2 Providing financial support and
acknowledgement
1
Introducing obligatory course in teachers’ training 1 Supporting PR-work of educational theatre
and drama
1
Giving financial support for professional training for
practising teachers
1 Supporting child-centred teaching
methodology in schools
1
Initiating pedagogical-methodological reforms in
teachers’ training
1 Recognising ‘educational theatre and drama
pedagogue’ as an official profession
1
Providing proper infrastructure for educational
theatre and drama work
1 Collecting best practices 1
Municipalities:
Employing theatre and drama pedagogues in every
school
Providing grants for theatre and drama projects for
local communities
Ensuring that every school principal makes theatre
and drama part of the school programme
Supporting, funding and encouraging teachers to
study educational theatre and drama
Encouraging local educational theatre and drama
initiatives
EU-policy:
3 Organising international educational theatre
and drama conferences and workshops
1 Providing financial help for educational theatre
and drama associations (training, grants)
2 Supporting research on educational theatre
and drama
2 Supporting educational theatre and drama
teachers’ international networks and cooperation,
exchanges
1 Providing financial support and
acknowledgement
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