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Introduction
This course examines the role of the teacher as a reflective and reflexive practitioner, who is both facilitator and actor/performer in her capacity as a collaborative and dialogical educator. It attends to how interactive and participatory learning require teachers to be adaptable to varied styles of learning, and self-aware in relation to multiple cultural dynamics. This entails an ability to improvise and perform multiple roles in order to meet the needs of varied teacher-student dynamics in the 21st century context.
This course responds to the ongoing changes in the education landscape that require teachers to become more engaged in active learning processes that exceed conventional book learning approaches, and embrace holistic, multi-dimensional and inter-disciplinary frames. The arts, particularly drama, is an ideal platform through which to do this, as it is inherently open to change and integrative of multiple knowledges. The teacher as facili-actor can then embody and enact these critical pedagogies and practices.
This course responds to the ongoing changes in the education landscape that require teachers to become more engaged in active learning processes that exceed conventional book learning approaches, and embrace holistic, multi-dimensional and inter-disciplinary frames. The arts, particularly drama, is an ideal platform through which to do this, as it is inherently open to change and integrative of multiple knowledges. The teacher as facili-actor can then embody and enact these critical pedagogies and practices.
This course is part of:
- Graduate Certificate in
Drama Education
- Graduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning of Drama and Art
- FlexiMasters in Drama Education
Learners must complete this course to attain the Graduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning of Drama and Art (12 AU).
Learners must complete the following courses to attain the Graduate Certificate in Drama Education (12 AU):
- To develop skills and capacities in facilitation and acting that enable a teacher to advance her professional identity in education
- To engage critical thinking and reading in relation to theories of performance and education that pertain to collaborative teacher-student interactions
- To explore multiple options for teachers to use drama-based processes in their pedagogical approaches to teaching and learning
- To critically analyse discourses concerning the role of the teacher in the 21st century classroom
The course will examine performance theory in relation to arts-based pedagogies that draw on alternative approaches to teaching and learning through embodied and interdisciplinary frameworks. Participants will interrogate and critically analyse the artistry and skills a teacher requires to plan and facilitate a drama-based lesson, with reference to reflective and reflexive approaches. This includes developing vocabularies for creating contextually-based approaches to teaching, and examining the multiple demands of the teacher as artist, educator, mentor, project manager, etc.
List of Topics: Teaching and Learning in a Dialogical Context The Dynamics of Teacher-Student Interaction Call and Response as Embodied Pedagogy Theatre as Participatory Pedagogy Roles and Responsibilities as Facili-Actor
Standard Course Fee: S$4,490.80
SSG Funding Support | Course fee | Course fee payable after SSG funding, if eligible under various schemes | |
BEFORE funding & GST | AFTER funding & 9% GST | ||
Singapore Citizens (SCs) and Permanent Residents (PRs) (Up to 70% funding) | S$4,120.00 | S$1,347.24 | |
Enhanced Training Support for SMEs (ETSS) | S$523.24 | ||
SCs aged ≥ 40 years old | |||
- Standard course fee is inclusive of GST.
- NTU/NIE alumni may utilise their $1,600 Alumni Course Credits. Click here for more information.
FlexiMasters in Drama Education
| COURSE TITLE | ACADEMIC UNIT |
| MDR901 Theatre Making: Theory, Practice, Pedagogy* | 4 |
| MDR902 Drama Education, Curriculum and Assessment* | 4 |
| MDR904 Arts-based Research* | 4 |
Graduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning of Drama and Art
| COURSE TITLE | ACADEMIC UNIT |
| MEA902 Visual Arts and Creativity | 4 |
| MEA903 Art and New Media Technology | 4 |
Listed courses are:
- Credit-bearing and stackable to Graduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning of Drama and Art (total 12AUs), Graduate Certificate in Drama Education (total 12AUs) and FlexiMasters in Drama Education (total 16AUs)
*SSG funded and SkillsFuture Credit approved
