Sunday 8:40-9:30 AM
Cosmos A
Promoting intercultural awareness through creative fictional
dramas
Joseph S. Cravotta
Kyoto University, Japan
This workshop will examine the use of student-generated dramatic plays
as a means of raising awareness of intercultural communication. One way
to help learners become more aware of different cultures is to have them
create, write, and perform fictional plays about cross cultural topics.
This workshop will explore a series of activities which take pupils through
a long-term, creative project of sharing aspects of various cultures with
others. These activities utilize a four-skilled process of pre- writing
tasks, multi-draft scripts, collaborative rehearsal with peers, self-direction,
and finally performance in front of an audience. The purpose of this workshop
is to provide educators with a framework which actively guides students
through a collaborative, creative process while stimulating and increasing
sensitivity to cross cultural similarities and differences. A non-teacher
centered, student-fronted setting is the approach endorsed during this
workshop. |