The Theatre and Games in the Teaching Process
Education Reform and Management Innovation: 4th International Conference 2017
Evija Kopeika, Anna Vintere

The youth experience difficulties finding job and earn appropriate income. They have bigger possibility to be unemployed than adults or work in a job with lower salary. This problem is caused by different factors one of which is inability to demonstrate their skills in a high intellectual level, advocate their opinion with arguments, and to work in a team. Therefore, it is necessary to teach these skills to students already during study time. When working with the contemporary youth – becoming pedagogues, engineers, and economists – it is important that the learnable material would be not only told but also stayed in the memory of entrants. And it would remain there not only until a test but far longer as well, and in case of necessity, entrants would be able to use this knowledge in other subjects and in life. It is also important to understand where and how a young person could use this knowledge in the case of necessity. Since the biggest part of the youth is hyperactive, it is very difficult to grasp their attention, but to make a youngster do his or her homework singly, and not by quickly copying it from other sources, is almost impossible. And it is even harder to include creativity and broad improvement of the youth education. Therefore, it is necessary to use maximally progressive methods in the teaching process parallel to classical teaching way in order to interest students in the learning process and to gain the maximal result. One of such methods is the use of theatre and games in the teaching process. This method could be used in the acquisition of every subject – starting with the labour protection and civil defence, and finishing with mathematics and physics. Of course, for a pedagogue the preparation for classes takes incomparably longer time and energy as in the classical case, and in the current economic situation of pedagogues this is only a “volunteer`s work”. In the article the current youth unemployment rate as well the influence of unconventional teaching methods on the knowledge level and acquired results of the entrants will be reflected and analysed.


Keywords
Teaching; Theatre; Methods; Results; Labour market; Employment

Kopeika, E., Vintere, A. The Theatre and Games in the Teaching Process. In: Education Reform and Management Innovation: 4th International Conference, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 27-28 February, 2017. USA: IERI & PRESS, 2017, pp.67-73. ISBN 978-1-61275-509-0. ISSN 2160-1070.

Publication language
English (en)
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