Education,
Playback Theatre,
and
Young
People
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Daniel Feldhendler
Anastasya Vorobyova
Tim Reagan
Kathleen Olivier
Brian Tasker
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Ana Mª Fernández Espinosa
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Assell Romanelli
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Musican’s Muse
Tonia
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Bako Tihamer
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Vol XIX No. 1 & 2
October 2014
Playback Theatre —
Education for Tomorrow
Daniel
Feldhendler
In this paper Daniel Feldhendler shares the work he recently pre-
sented at the International conference on Drama Education in
Paris. He tells the story of the conference and shares his vast expe-
rience, skills and knowledge of story-based methods within educa-
tion for over 35 years at Goethe-University (Frankfurt/Main, Ger-
many). His method, entitled Enacting Life, combines Playback
Theatre, with Psychodrama, Action Methods, Theatre and Life
Stories for Education. His paper relates playback to these other
approaches and documents the wide ranging interest in narrative
methods.
8
th
IDEA – World Conference
The last IDEA Conference entitled:
From one world to another: arts education for
tomorrow
took place in Paris, July, 8
th
- 13
th
2013.
IDEA (
International Drama/Theatre and Education Association)
is an important
worldwide organization that was founded in 1992. Its members are culturally diverse
drama, theatre and education practitioners, artists, pedagogues and teachers, from
around 90 countries who are united in their commitment to making drama / theater
and education accessible, significant and present everywhere. Many national drama/
theater associations are members of IDEA, as well as individual
artists and practi-
tioners.
The 8th IDEA Conference hosted 1230
participants, representing
50 countries from
across
5 continents. The presidency was entrusted to Catherine Tasca, a senator
and the former French Minister of Culture who had set up, among other projects, a
national network of school classes with artistic and cultural projects back in 2001. In
the Declaration of Intent of Chairwoman, Catherine Tasca,
I noted following signifi-
cant information:
The world conferences on arts education organized by UNESCO in 2006 in Lisbon and in
2010 in Seoul highlighted that educational policies throughout the world need to ensure that
arts and culture are given high status. However, we still see quite a considerable gap between
these declarations of intent and their implementation in schools and various educational struc-
tures and settings What the eighth IDEA world congress on Drama / Theatre and Education
proposes is to reflect and to act, so that words and actions may converge and find their meeting
point. Although many countries may differ in their views on arts education, either because they
work towards distinct ends, or because of the diversity of systems in each country, they all share
identical and essential questions we intend to tackle. (...) This context of global crisis and consid-
erable evolution forces us to invent new educational methods and new shared stories, through
which values such as solidarity, creativity, a culture of community rather than domination, and
empathy will become the resources and the treasures of the women and men of tomorrow. An art
of presence and speech, a hybrid art which invites all other forms of art, a collective art, an art of
rituals and symbolization: drama offers one of the most powerful ways to achieve these goals and
to improve both our knowledge of the world and self-knowledge.
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