Abstrakt
Theater techniques and conventions in education have been proven to increase students' engagement, to improve motivation in learning, to develop important skills such as communication and critical thinking and other competencies necessary for success.
This contribution will present the theater-educational eighteen moths long project called "Theatre for Democracy", which was launched in the Archa theater in Prague in January 2022, and which aims at linking theater and theatre creation process with education.
The main questions that project team members, engaged artists, selected by Archa theatre and a team of teachers dealt with were: How can our cooperation expand and cultivate competences for democratic culture through implementation of contemporary theater tools into teaching at the second level of elementary schools and high schools? And how can be these competencies applied in teaching and/or real-life situations?
The project outcomes include documentary and puppet theater workshops for pupils and students of the second level of elementary schools and highschools and their teachers, theatrical performances with discussions or theatre shows in TIE format and other outcomes.