This work is a study about what the students in class 5D and their two teachers experience during eleven lessons in history when creative methods, especially drama is used. The purpose of the investigation is to find out how these 30 students and their two teachers experienced the educational process, and to relate their experiences to theories of creativity and to creative methods in education, to theories about drama in education, and also to relate these experiences to the aims described for history in LPO 94. It is also discussed whether this educational method is especially suitable when insight and empathy are asked for. Since this investigation deals with qualities, values and experiences the research method is qualitative. One of the two teachers has both participated in the teaching process and in the research process as a researcher. The investigation and the result are based on diaries that the students wrote during this period, video observations of these eleven lessons and the two teacher’s diaries. The result of the investigations is that both the students and the teachers experienced what was claimed in theory for creativity and creative methods. They also achieved what LPO 94 points out as an aim for the studies of history. The teachers and the students experienced that this method has both intellectual and emotional qualities, and that drama in education gives a possibility to achieve self-awareness, to explore attitudes and values, to gain insight, empathy and understanding.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:hig-29784 |
| Date | January 2001 |
| Creators | Jacquet, Ewa |
| Publisher | Högskolan i Gävle, Institutionen för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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