Last modified: 2014-03-21
Abstract
The concept of cultural sustainability are very important in the times. Drama can also be considered in the area of cultural sustainability. Learning drama gained importance both in educational sciences as a teaching method and in arts education throughout the history of Turkish education.
The years of 1980s-1990s-2000s-2010s can be accepted as appropriate years to analyze the sustainability of drama. The purpose of this study are to obtain opinions of experts coming from different decades; to conduct interviews; to investigate how the transitions occurred among those decades and the reasons of this sustainability. In this qualitative research, data will be collected trough semi-structured interviews and document analysis techniques. Participants will be chosen from four different decades.
The research questions are listed below:
- Who are the representatives of four generations (four decades) of drama?
- What are conditions for sustainability in Drama?
- What are the similarities and differences among four decades?
- What are the methods of learning drama?
- What is the place of drama in their lives? Is drama a hobby or a profession?
- What are their future plans regarding drama?
This research will be contributed in drama area .