Corporate Trainings with Creative Drama
27 March World Theater Day
Fundamentals of Creative Drama, late 19th century classical
It is necessary to use more experience instead of the education model.
It was thrown out when educators who thought about it started to discuss the issue. After these discussions, various studies on creative drama especially in England
started to be done. Dorothy from the second half of the 1900s
Developed through the devoted efforts of educators such as Heathcote and Gavin Bolton
It has flourished and is accepted all over the world as the most effective education and learning method.
So what is this creative drama? President of Contemporary Drama Association
Ömer Adıgüzel’in Eğitimde Yaratıcı Drama kitabında yaptığı tanıma göre "Creative
Drama; based on the life experiences of the members of a group,
your purpose, thought, improvisation, role playing etc. using the techniques
is revitalization. These resuscitation processes are handled by an experienced leader/trainer.
spontaneity, the here and now principle, as if
It is based on making and creative drama directly from the general features of the game.
benefits.”
Such an effective teaching model of Creative Drama
We can deduce the reason why. Creative drama, rote-based and
It is not an accumulation-based education system. Working with the group and
mainly uses the life experiences of those in the group,
the desired information, thought, according to the group's perception, knowledge, and experience.
provided in a way that they can receive. This group is a 4 year old boy
It can be a group of university students, or a professional group.
it could be. Studies specific to each group and the purpose of the group are organized.
Role playing and improvisation are the most important aspects of any drama activity.
is part of it. Animation, watching the animated, talking about it, evaluation
discussion allows the learned information to enter the mind without extra effort
and prevents it from being forgotten. Playing in the genes of creative drama
ve mış gibi yapmak vardır. Game; mankind's greatest ever
temel öğrenme ve öğretme aracıdır. Yaratıcı drama, oyunu
makes it a planned part of education by structuring it in accordance with the purpose.
These games also help the individuals in the group to get rid of their external identity.
enabling the individual to have a more extroverted structure for improvisations and animations.
It also serves to dress up. With the contributions of the Contemporary Drama Association, we are still in our country.
Although it is very insufficient, especially in pre-school and primary education institutions
Creative drama trainings have been carried out for a while. But especially business
still has not fully explored the creative drama method.
Companies mainly use the trainings in which they listen to the classical power point presentation in the trainings they give to both white collar and blue collar workers. The permanence of this type of training is very low, and its success is directly proportional to the podium skills of the training specialist. It is not always possible to meet experts with high podium skills.
The approach of the white collar to these trainings;
- What will they teach that we don't know?
- Among all the things that I had to train, this training was also included.
- Anyway, at least I won't have to pull the principal today, while I don't go beyond thoughts like
The situation is similar in the blue collar;
- Even if I sit back and take a nap
- They will iron a lot of heads again
- We've heard it a thousand times, they'll tell the same thing again
Similar thoughts circulate in the minds of the participants.
Worst of all, they are right in most of their thoughts. Because its effectiveness in the late 1800s
The learning process of the classical education model, which has started to be discussed, negatively affects the learning process.
It has many defects that affect it. The Creative Drama method, on the other hand, turns almost all of these defects into advantages.
-The classical education model is based on rote, a narrator comes out
and when his tongue turns, he tells his knowledge to the other person, shows it in the presentation and
waits for the other person to learn (memorize)
In the creative drama method, the leader or trainer is only
gives direction. The person enters into an interaction with the group he is training with.
enters and learns the information he needs to get here by experiencing it.
In the classical education model, education is necessarily theoretical.
given and disconnected from life, the knowledge to be taught is divided into parts.
This prevents the learner from seeing the whole, and the learner memorizes
has a lot of difficulty in transferring knowledge to real life. This case solution
and prevent behaviors such as assuming responsibility.
In the creative drama method, the problems are revealed by using the experiences of the participants and they are tried to be solved by the participants' own experiences. The leader ensures that the participants stay in all lives. Thanks to the animations, the participant gains new experiences, opens his horizons with the roles he plays, makes an effort to reach the information, and creates curiosity.
Play has a very important place in the creative drama method. The competition, which is at the core of the game, gives the participants an enjoyable tension. The participant starts to express their thoughts comfortably with the freedom given by not being limited in any way, the game itself is already an element of entertainment. Animations different view
Different approaches will emerge spontaneously in the solution of problems. Therefore, in corporate trainings where creative drama is used as a method, it is out of the question for the employees to get bored, sleepy or just stay in the listening position and try to take what is imposed on them. On the contrary, employee profiles begin to form, who willingly participate in the trainings, are a part of the solution in solving the problems, not only get what is aimed in the training, but also express their feelings and thoughts comfortably.
In short, corporate trainings given with the classical education model can only be "let friends see in shopping" trainings, while the trainings given with the creative drama method are trainings aimed at changing attitudes and behaviors in real terms.
