Ms Tintti KARPPINEN
tintti.karppinen@welho.com
Executive Committee Member
Finnish Drama / Theatre Education Association (FIDEA), Finland

Ms Tintti Karppinen is a drama teacher who specialises in socio drama, communicative skills and drama for peace education. She is a trainer of teachers, nurses, social workers and planner and teacher in Theatre Academy; workshops and courses for personnel in different organisations and firms, in   prisons, for refugees and immigrants, for whole families etc.

She was ex-President of FIDEA (Finnish Drama/Theatre Education Association) and has been the International contact person in its Executive Committee since 2002.

She was involved with IDEA (International Drama/Theatre and Education Association) - as member of EC 95-98, Vice President 98-01, Vice President of General Meeting Committee 01-07.

She acted as the representative of Finland in drama congresses and seminars organised by AITA/IATA, ASSITEJ, EU, IDEA, ITI, InSEA, UNESCO etc. and also workshops and lectures around the world. She was the main organiser of FIDEA/IDEA/UNESCO congress: European Arts in Education - Cooperation over Borders 2003, and was the representative of Finland in UNESCO World Congress in Lisbon 2006.

Drama as a method to increase creativity and lifelong learning in different work places

As long as theatre education has not the equal status with other school subjects in curriculum, we should include drama into all adults’ in-service training to give them a possibility to develop their creativity, social skills and understanding of different personalities and cultures.  Based on the person’s own experiences, expression and social interaction, drama teaches one how to evaluate, criticise and deeply understand information and knowledge, given by colleagues, media and other sources.

The substance of drama also includes conflicts of different people with different opinions and how we can deepen the understanding and study the reasons and follow up on them. Therefore, engaging in drama and theatre is also a very effective tool in peace education and in promoting interaction in multicultural society. And above all – it is (people) working together!
That’s why the aim of IDEA is to get drama/theatre education for all children and young people, too.

The rapid changes – fusions and other organisational new statements of profit and loss- are globally today one of the main demands for workers flexibility. I have had drama workshops for years in all kinds of work places to help personnel in the new situation to create such a cooperative culture - where every individual is taken as valuable colleague and not as a threat or a burden on business.

It is no more time to handle arts as an isolated, separate sector in the circle of human life but to take them as a basic, unique but universal element among other necessities in the life.

Tintti Karppinen女士

Tintti Karppinen女士是芬蘭戲劇學院的導師，專長社會戲劇。她曾任芬蘭戲劇教育學院(FIDEA)主席，自2002年起，更成為該會的國際聯絡人。過往，Karppinen女士曾擔任IDEA的議會成員(1995年-1998年)、副主席(1998年-2001年)，以及委員會副主席(2001年-2007年)。

「戲劇：添加創意和不同場所的終身學者方法」

只要戲劇一天未成為學校的必修學科，我們應堅持在成人在職培訓中融入戲劇，因為它給人們機會發展創意和社交技巧。戲劇的精髓是它演繹、體驗人與人之間的不同意見及衝突。筆者從教授戲劇中協助人們面對新環境及建立新的合作文化。