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Drama: Education Department
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At UHD, Drama is a part of the Department of Arts and Humanities, along with Art, Communication Studies, Foreign Languages, Humanities, and Music. There is no Drama major at UHD, but it is possible to minor in the area. There is a wide variety of course offerings for a student to choose from, taught by full-time and part-time faculty.
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The editors, Dr. Manfred Schewe (Department of German/Board of Drama and Theatre Studies, UCC) and Dr. Susanne Even (Department of Germanic Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington), would be delighted to welcome staff and students to this event. The launch celebrations will include an introduction by Dr. Ger Fitzgibbon, Director, Board of Drama and Theatre Studies, UCC and a brief demonstration of the online publication project by the editors.
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Recent graduates of the Department of Drama have found immediate employment as lecturers/assistant professors at Queens University Belfast, University of Reading, University College Cork, NUI Galway and Villanova University. Others have gone on to work in theatre, film and television.
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Unlike theatre in education, Drama in Education (DIE) is workshop-based, with groups creating their own scenarios, ideas and even subject matter through the use of drama and drama workshops. Sometimes this kind of work may lead to the creation of a play, or a piece of TIE or some other kind of means to show a result from the work. Drama in Education utilises skills used across the spectrum of dramatic activity, everything from teacher in role to normal theatrical conventions of audience and spectator. DIE is usually run in youth clubs, schools, community centres etc. DIE involves a high amount of participation by the group, and is therefore aimed for smaller groups of individuals.
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Marian McCarthy teaches in the Education Department at UCC and has a special interest in the Arts in Education, particularly Drama in Education. She has directed several theses in this area for the MA in Drama and Theatre Studies, as part of her work on the Board of Drama and Theatre Studies. She has given workshops nationally and internationally on drama as a methodology in the enhancement of student learning. She draws in particular on Gardner's theory of Multiple Intelligences and on the Teaching for Understanding framework advocated in the work of the Project Zero Team at Harvard, to ground her thinking on the arts and education. As well as teaching on several courses in the Higher Diploma in Education and on the Masters in Education programme in her own department, she is involved in developing teaching and learning within UCC, providing support in the areas of Mentoring and theories of Teaching and Learning, as part of initiatives in professional development for UCC staff. She won the President's award for Teaching Excellence in 2002.
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The very positive findings from D4LC give impetus to the argument for raising the status of Drama within the curriculum. The D4LC conferences rolling out across the UK in 2007 have ensured that this message is disseminated to teachers, local authorities and educational policy makers.
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