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How could the students experience the richness of arts when the number of hours devoted to arts and culture education in the curriculum is limited? How could arts synergy help deepen and enrich students' experience with the arts? These questions will be explored in this workshop which is inspired by the book The Uncorker of Ocean Bottles by Michelle Cuevas and Erin E. Stead. The workshop offers the opportunity to develop activities which support collaboration between arts fields and which can be used in teaching practice with elementary and lower secondary students. The participant will be actively involved during the whole session - trying the prepared activities inspired by the book and combining artistic discipline, looking for other examples of story-inspired activities, sharing of own experiences with connecting artistic areas in education. After the workshop, a collection of possibilities for using the synergy of artistic fields in practice could be created.
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Kateřina Žarnikov
Kateřina Žarnikov is drama teacher, PhD student of the programme Theory and Practice of Drama Education at the Theater Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, member Creative Dramatics Association (member of IDEA Europe). She has been teaching drama education for 15 years. She organizes and leads drama education workshops in the Czechia and Slovakia. During the COVID-lockdown she collected and shared experiences of Czech and Slovak drama teachers. In her doctoral research she compares the position of drama education in primary and lower secondary education in the Czech Republic and in neighboring countries.
