Faculty of Teacher Education, University of Zagreb in cooperation with Tirena Theatre and Croatian Center for Drama Education, is organising the 2^nd international art and science symposium

Encouraging Quality In Drama Creativity

The symposium takes place in Zagreb, from 22^nd to 24^th of September 2018 at the Faculty of Teacher Education, Savska Street 77.

First call

We invite advocates and critics, practitioners and theoreticians, experienced ones as well as newcomers – anybody who has ever wondered how to evaluate the quality of eduactional drama work, to join us at the 2^nd  Drama Education Symposium. The issue of quality will be the focus of all our activities during this three-day gathering.

Previous symposium’s main issue was the position of drama education in educational institutions and wider, in society. After the symposium, the purpose of which was an improvement of drama education’s position and the networking of drama pedagogues who often feel lonely and isolated in their communities, we have initiatited certain actions. During many conversations, official and unofficial, the topic of quality repeatingly appeared – how do we evaluate quality,  how do we raise and recognize it? Which parameters are used to assess improvement? What criteria is to be followed? That is why we have chosen this topic for our 2^nd symposium.

However, the quality as a topic is too complex to take on during only one three-day gathering so we have decided to aim our focus on a single segment of drama education: the drama creativity; and to consider closely the issue of quality in that segment.

The symposium poses many questions:

• How to evaluate the quality/success of the school play?
• Who evaluates the quality of plays produced by drama studios and how is it evaluated?
• How to lead a conversation about school plays?
• How to recognize the process in the final product -t he performance? Does the success of a school play depend on the recognition of the pedagogical process? Should it depend on it?
• Who evaluates the quality/ success of the school plays? What is the profile of an expert who evaluates such quality/ success?
• How to improve the competencies of drama pedagogues who work with children in the field of drama creativity (in schools and in drama studios)?

The symposium will be organized to address these key issues through three different approaches: the practical, the professional-scientific and the workshop approach. The programme framework of the symposium was designed with these approaches as a starting point:

Day 1:

• Performances of school plays and conversations about the process
• Half-day workshop: How to have a conversation about a play with children/ young people? How to evaluate/estimate the quality of a play performed by children/young people?

Day 2:

• Scientific and expert part of the symposium
• Round table / discussions in groups about children’s drama creativity festivals (such as Lidrano)

Day 3:

• all day workshops that offer skill improvement for participants working with children in the field of drama education

Forms of participation:

1. Participant (in discussion and workshops, listener at the scientific part of the symposium, audience)
2. The application of the expert and scientific work for the expert-scientific part of the symposium: the submitted work should address one of the topics related to the main theme of the conference and the issues that the symposium directly or indirectly addresses. Submitted work can be conceived as a professional/scientific reasearch paper or reflection on experience. Papers that pass the review will be published in the Symposium proceedings.

All interested participants can apply by filling out the application form at this link:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1ZPMXH7lGODhmpCJ6QEZcd1L-EyAu8YhzRgAbLwW7548

Registration fee: 320, 00 + PDV= 400, 00 kn  (55 eur)

For students: 100, 00 kn  (15 eur)

Payment instructions:

1. Payments from Croatia:

Recipient: Faculty of Teacher Education, Zagreb, Savska 77

IBAN of the recipient: HR9124020061100639639

Model: 00, reference number: 661513-2018

Payment description:  The Future of Drama Education Symposium fee, name and surname of the payer, address and OIB

2. Payments from abroad

Recipient: Faculty of Teacher Education, Zagreb, Savska 77, Zagreb, Croatia

IBAN of the recipient: HR9124020061100639639

SWIFT/BIC: ESBCHR22

Bank name: Erste i Steiermakische bank d. d., Jadranski trg 3 a, Rijeka, Republic of Croatia

Payment description: The Future of Drama Education Symposium fee, name and surname of the payer, address and tax or identification number (ID number)

Receipt for the fee paid should be sent to: simpozij@ufzg.hr.

Symposium languages: Croatian and English

Important dates:

• Abstract submission : 3^rd of May 2018
• Notification of Abstract Acceptance / Rejection: 15^th of May 2018
• Complete paper submission: 30^th July 2018
• Participation registration: 31^st August 2018
• Deadline for registration payment: 31^st August 2018

Programme board:

• Doc. Iva Gruić, PhD, Faculty of Teacher Education, University of Zagreb, president
• Sandra Banić Naumovski, Dubrava Youth Theatre, Zagreb
• Snježana Čubrilo, Croatian Centre for Drama Education
• Helena Korošec, PhD, Faculty of Pedagogy, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
• Vladimir Krušić, PhD, Croatian centre for drama education
• Damir Miholić, PhD, Faculty of Education and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Zagreb
• Doc. Marina Petković Liker, Academy of Dramatic Art, University of Zagreb
• Doc. Jelena Sitar Cvetko, Pedagogical Faculty, Koper, Slovenia
• Mr. sc. Ines Škuflić Horvat, Tirena Theatre
• Assoc. Prof. Tamara Turza Bogdan, PhD, Faculty of Teacher Education, University of Zagreb
• Assoc. Prof. Vladimira Velički, PhD, Faculty of Teacher Education, University of Zagreb
• Frana Marija Vranković, freelance artist
• Prof. dr. sc. Diana Zalar, PhD, Faculty of Teacher Education, University of Zagreb

Organization board:

• Doc. Iva Gruić, PhD, Faculty of Teacher Education, University of Zagreb, president
• Sandra Banić Naumovski, Dubrava Youth Theatre, Zagreb
• Snježana Čubrilo, Croatian Centre for Drama education
• Nina Horvat, Tirena Theatre
• Maja Sviben, Croatian Centre for Drama Education, Zagreb
• Mr. sc. Ines Škuflić Horvat, Tirena theatre
• Frana Marija Vranković, freelance artist
• Assoc. Prof. Vladimira Velički, PhD Faculty of Teacher Education, University of Zagreb

Symposium secretaries: Maša Rimac Jurinović and Zrinka Rogulj, Faculty of Teacher Education, University of Zagreb.

For all additional information send inquiries to: simpozij@ufzg.hr .