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How to let students in their adolescence disclose the pressures they confront? How to make hearing-impaired children better communicate with their family members and pals? Veronika Gaber Korbar, Director of the Taka Tuka Club in Ljubljana of Slovenia, Chengdu’s friendship city, brought a completely new approach to education: Drama In Education (DIE) to the students of Grade 8 of the Department for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing of the Chengdu Special Education School.
As a matter of fact, as early as the end of the Second World War, DIE began incorporating theatrical activities for educational purposes in Europe and the United States, emphasizing interaction and situational simulation. In the class, Veronika created a fictitious character Miao Miao and let the children imagine what kind of a student Miao Miao was. “She respects teachers.” “She is lively and cheerful.” “She loves study.” “She gets along with other students very well, except that she quarrels with Xiao Ming.”…The children one by one, through their sign language teacher, described their image of Miao Miao.
“But suddenly one day, Miao Miao turned strange and was very upset. What had happened? How should her classmates comfort her?” Veronika set up this scene and divided the class into several groups each with five children and asked them to play the role of “abnormal Miao Miao” telling the reason why she was so unhappy, and how her classmates comforted her. The reasons mostly related to parents, such “Dad and Mom force me to study”; “Dad and Mom want me to study hard so as to go to university in future”; “Dad and Mom are divorced”, etc. Seeing all this, Veronika could not help smiling wryly and shook her head. But she also analyzed that it was under the protection of role-playing that the children felt safe, thus enabling them to reveal their problems without hesitation. She pointed out: “To them, Miao Miao is a kind of psychological projection. Through role-playing, interaction with other classmates and help from the teachers, they are trying to find ways to solve their problems. This is just the objective that DIE hopes to achieve.”
Veronika has been engaged in special education for 20 years. She explained that, when communicating with hearing-impaired children, one needs to be more patient and express ideas as specifically and simply as possible. This is the reason why she has introduced DIE into special education. “Role-playing and interaction can help hearing-impaired children study more actively and intuitively.” She told the reporter that her three daughters often volunteered to do some work for the Taka Tuka Club. “What I hope to teach them most is to be independent and grow up in their own ways and have the ability of solving problems independently.”
Last year was China-EU Youth Exchange Year, with its main aim to promote intercultural dialogue and enhance mutual understanding and friendship between Chinese and European youth and encourage them to pay close attention to, and support the development of China-EU relations. This, it was hoped, would exert an extensive and positive influence on the decision makers and youth organizations of China and the EU and ensuring post-2011 sustainable cooperation between the decision makers and youth organizations of the two sides.
In order to strengthen the partnership and develop the contact network, volunteer projects and youth exchange projects, the Education, Audio-visual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA), subordinate organization of the European Commission, decided to use its main program for the current year “Youth in Action” and its sub-program “Youth in the World” to solicit international youth cooperation projects from youth organizations and agencies in all EU member countries from which 30 were chosen for funding. Among these, the project in cooperation with Chinese youth organizations was given top priority.
The year 2011 marks the 30th anniversary of the twinning of friendship-city ties between Chengdu and Ljubljana. The Taka Tuka Club which has long dedicated itself to international youth exchanges, was keen to get involved so as to enhance mutual understanding and cultural exchanges between the youth of China and the EU, promote communications and exchanges between hearing handicapped and normal youth and facilitate spreading of the advanced educational method of DIE. From this merged the“Theater as a Bridge for Communication”.
Among the members in charge of the project on the Slovenian side, there is a special member from Chengdu: Wang Xuan, a graduate student sent by the Chinese Ministry of Education to study for a doctorate of child psychology at the University of Ljubljana. During the project design phase, she strongly proposed that Veronika should seek to cooperate with the youth organizations in Chengdu. For this reason, she returned home in May 2011 and made contacts with the Chengdu Municipal People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries(CMPAFFC) to seek help. When the Foreign Affairs Office of the Chengdu Municipal Government and the CMPAFFC learned about the project, they gave it great support and recommended the Chengdu Special Education School and Chengdu University as the Chinese cooperative partners.
In early August 2011, the project won recognition from EACEA and got 100,000 euros in financial assistance. In December 2011, the Slovenian members of the project visited Chengdu where they held lectures and workshops to popularize the DIE theory and its practice in the education for deaf-mute students. They also visited relevant schools and institutions in Chengdu. In January 2012, the Chinese members of the project visited Slovenia where they briefed about China’s education for deaf-mute children and the development and current situation of China’s children’s theater, held workshops and visited relevant schools and organizations. In July 2012, Slovenian youth will visit Chengdu and participate in DIE and group activities together with local youths to enhance mutual understanding and cultural exchanges and, in particular, promote mutual understanding and communication between normal and hearing-impaired youth. In October 2012, a Chinese youth delegation will visit Slovenia and perform DIE during the Youth Art Festival and have group activities with their Slovenian counterparts.
Note: The phrase Taka Tuka comes from one of Swedish children’s literature writer Astrid Lindgren’s representative fairy tales Pippi Longstocking. The little unconventional girl Pippi Longstocking is the idol of children. Taka Tuka is from one of the stories Pippi Longstocking in Taka Tuka Land telling about her interesting adventures in the mysterious Taka Tuka Land in the South Seas.
