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Cultural Vehicles in Education - assisting
the needs of vulnerable social groups
Life Together
12.03.2008
Artistic Unit
Teambuilding with use of artistic methods
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| Subject of the unit |
Competences (key Lisbon competences) |
Practical skills |
Pedagogical aim |
Methods |
Didactic materials |
Duration and date |
| Teambuilding |
VI. Social and civic competencies
VIII. Cultural awareness and expression
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VI.1. Working as a part of a group
VI.2.Feel more comfortable in a group / to
be able to present oneself in a more self-confident
manner
VI.2. To build up a trust in a group - to
be able to rely on a group
VIII. 1. To express emotions using dramatic
features
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To unite the group - teambuilding- for the participants
to build up the trust |
Group work on simple dramatic activities:Games
building up the trust among the participants individual
expressions of emotions in front of the group |
Not used |
4 hours (4 times 45 minutes) 12.03.2008 |
I. A description of the activities
undertaken during the unit, including comments on
the reactions of the group/individual participants
Since the group and its members is still changing
at this point, there were some new participants. Therefore
the structure of the workshop was similar to the previous
one:
1. Introduction
2. Teambuilding activities
Besides the activities mentioned in the previous session there was one activity
added, which served as a further step in the process of building the team and
trust.
The group was separated in the pairs. One person in the pair served as stronso
- statue and the other build up whatever he wanted from the statue. It depends
on the builder how he wanted to build the statue , how he wished the stronso
to look like. The person who served as the statue let the other move with his
body however the builder felt to.
All the builders than walked around their statues, thought what the builder
wanted to express and were asked to somehow participate on the picture so that
they can show how the stronso touches them.
Then the roles of builders and statues were switched and the process repeated.
On the activity we could notice that some of the participants had very strong
artificial skills and put everything , all their emotions and sole in the activity.
Others were very cautious especially at the4 beginning of the activity and
seemed it was hard for them to open up in front of others.
3. Expressing the feelings in an artistic
way
II. Was the aim of the unit
achieved (the implementation of practical skills
and the pedagogical aim)?
III. Other remarks (for example
on the interaction between artistic and educational
elements)
Unfortunately however interesting and entertaining
this workshop was the attendance was very low. There
were 4 people participating in the workshop. This might
be caused by the nature of the group we work with,
they are not used to indulge in any activities and
hobbies regularly.
However , as we were analyzing the situation later, the entire structure of
the artistic activities was probably too abstract for the participants we work
with. It seems that our participants would rather do more concrete dramatic
activities, probably the way that they can see some result at the end of each
session and could feel how in particular they contributed to the drama. There
were only two of the participants - from last and this workshop who seemed
they felt comfortable during these activities and who seemed to possess the
spirit for such and abstract activities.
As a result we decided to make some improvements in the structure of the artistic
workshop activities to adjust it more to the nature of the group.
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