Professor Shifra SCHONMANN
shifras@construct.haifa.ac.il
Head of the Laboratory for Research
Theatre/Drama Education, University of Haifa, Israel
Prof Schonmann is the Head of the Laboratory for Research in Theatre/Drama Education and Head of Arts Therapy–Bibliotherapy department, and conducts the program of Theatre Teachers' Training in the Faculty of Education, University of Haifa, Israel. The continuing focus of her research is Aesthetic, Theatre/Drama Education, Curriculum, and Teacher Training. She has published numerous articles on these issues, as well as three books: Theatre of the Classroom (in Hebrew). Behind Closed Doors, (in English co-written with Ben Peretz) and Theatre as a Medium for Children and Young People: Images and Observations (in English). She acts as the academic counselor for the Israeli Ministry of Education for theatre for young people.
Fictional Worlds and Real Worlds – Construct Meaning via Worlds in Conflict
This address is a wake up call, reclaiming the place of the artistic and the aesthetic in arts education as its core creative experience. My main concern is to defuse some contradictions in the ways of 'world-making' through the arts (such as: the contradictions between free versus controlled ways of teaching; blocking the imagination versus enhancing creativity, a secure learning environment versus a dangerous one; clarity versus ambiguous ways of communication; concrete versus abstract modes of knowing) and, by doing so, to pave the way for reappraising the universal elements of arts education.
My basic claim is that we are stifled by applied arts that have often placed real obstacles in the way of broadening the horizon of the arts in educational settings. My claim is not against applied drama, music, dance or visual arts; rather, it is a claim for considering a different balance between the instrumental function and the aesthetic function of arts in education.
It is a claim for Arts Pedagogy which aims to explore and challenge existing boundaries of "double reality" i.e. the fictional worlds as they encounter real worlds. These conflicting worlds maintain an essential tension which may provide creative pedagogical possibilities and construct meaning of the arts as a productive experience.
Shifra Schonmann教授
Shifra Schonmann教授是以色列海法大學的劇場／話劇教育的研究總監。並以希伯來文及英語著寫有關方面的書籍。她亦是以色列教育部的青年人劇場的學術顧問。
「虛構與現實世界 － 從世界衝突中建立訊息」
筆者最關注是以解釋某些兩極端的存在重新評估教育的統一元素。筆者認為應用藝術 － 當中實踐與審美的失衡窒礙了學生的眼界開闊。藝術教學應講求「雙重現實」－ 虛構世界碰上現實世界，兩者之間的張力有利建立訊息。
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