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Theatre history… taught in a different way. Or how theatre history can be taught in very young ages. The experiential learning, the cross curricular approach, gamification and the new technologies were the helpers in a series of courses on the history of theater. The paper is a presentation of good practice in didactic of theatre education for 4th grade (9- 10 years old) pupils. It describes the learning process, the eras of the theater that we focused on, as well as how the information was given. However, the emphasis is mainly placed on the need of children of this age to play with history, in order to understand it better. Contributing to this aim were the improvisation sessions, as well as the final play that they prepared and presented.
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Spyridoula Birpili
Spyridoula Birpili is a drama teacher. She was graduated from the faculty of theatre studies (Athens) in 2003 and in 2004 she took her Master in ‘’Drama and the creative arts in education’’ from the University of Exeter (UK).She has been teaching drama in primary school
since 2004 and she has been awarded by the Ministry of Education for innovative teaching programs (2012, 2013). She has taken part in many conferences as a
lecturer and workshop facilitator. She is an author of children’s books and in 2021 she won the first prize in the 3rd Panhellenic Fairy Tale Writing Competition for teachers. She has designed and presented a series of drama lessons for the educational TV
program in Greece during the pandemic. She's worked as a columnist of pedagogical activities for children before and after watching a theater play.
