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CHAPTER ONE: LIVING THROUGH DRAMA
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The phrase ‘Living Through Drama’ does not have a Hungarian translation.
One reason for this is that it has not been part of the most accepted
Hungarian drama teacher training course,” founded by Laszlö Kaposi.
This course and its founder defined the established practice of drama in
education and offered the model for other courses that prepared drama
teachers in Hungary. The approach represented by Kaposi was reinforced
through publications” of volumes of lesson plans for different age-groups and
more importantly the ‘Drämapedagögiai olvasökönyv’” [Dramapedagogy
Reader] which remains the most concise collection of writings published in
Hungarian. The spine of my copy of this book is broken due to overuse at
the collection of Jonothan Neelands’ conventions, the forms that the drama
teacher can use to structure lessons. Though the first English language
publication" of the conventions is accompanied by almost thirty pages of
theory to help structuring lessons, the Hungarian Reader does not contain
this. The predominantly methodological line of Kaposi’s drama approach is
the most conspicuously visible in how Dorothy Heathcote’s seminal writing
titled Signs and Portents* is published in the Reader; while the list of 33 forms
she offers are there, the theoretical grounding and analysis of the use of sign
in theatre and drama, Heathcote’s definition of the three major components
of drama was never published in Hungarian.
Iam referring to most recognised Hungarian 120 hour ’Drämapedagögiai tanfolyam’ led by
Läszlé Kaposi. The Hungarian course description:
http://www.drama.hu/sites/default/files/tanfolyami_tematika_2017.pdf, (accessed 25 June
2017).
Kaposi László (ed.): A Dráma Tanítása: segédlet a 3-4. osztályban tanítók számára, Gödöllő,
Kerekasztal Színházi Nevelési Központ, 1997; Kaposi, László (ed.): A Dráma Tanítása:
segédlet a 5-6. osztályban tanítók számára, Gödöllő, Kerekasztal Színházi Nevelési
Központ, 1997; Kaposi László (ed.): A Dráma Tanítása: segédlet a 7-8. osztályban tanítók
számára, Gödöllő, Kerekasztal Színházi Nevelési Központ, 1999.
Kaposi Läszlö (ed.): Drámapedagógiai Olvasókönyv, Budapest, Magyar Drámapedagógiai
Társaság, 1995.
Neelands — Goode: Structuring Drama Work.
3! Dorothy Heathcote: Signs and portents, in Cecily O’Neill — Liz Johnson (eds.): Collected
Writings on Education and Drama, Evanston, Northwestern University Press, 1984, 160¬
169.
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