Drama in an Educational Context is a programme that trains teachers to tailor their lesson plans to reflect their own experiences and theories of education. The Programme also gives teachers the opportunity to take a proactive, integrated approach to teaching science and the arts, using drama as a bridge between the two.

Teachers on the programme are taught how to use drama to enliven the learning process, within the confines of the national curriculum, and to provide students with the space for exploration, analysis, expression, vision-building, self-reflection and an awareness of their community and the wider world.

The Drama in Education Summer School (DiESS) is an intensive two-week training course on methods for teaching drama theory and practice in the classroom. The course is targeted at early childhood and basic school educators, as well as animators who work with children, or anyone else using drama in an educational context.

The DiESS awards a Drama in Education diploma to participants who have completed three modules over three summers.

Programme Modules

• First Year - basics of Process Drama and an introduction to drama-based approach, Mantle of the Expert.
• Second Year - Process Drama and Mantle of the Expert.
• Third Year - theoretical approaches and practical applications of Process Drama and Mantle of the Expert.

For more information, please click here.