This intensive one-week Drama in Education (DiE) course introduces participants to drama pedagogy as a powerful experiential learning methodology that addresses the cognitive, emotional and social dimensions of learning.

The course places particular emphasis on social justice and climate justice, exploring how drama-based approaches can help learners understand complex societal challenges, develop empathy, critical thinking and agency, and imagine alternative futures.

Participants will explore how Drama in Education can be used across the curriculum to address themes such as inequality, discrimination, migration, environmental sustainability, climate change, responsibility, participation and democratic values. Through practical workshops, reflection and collaborative planning, the course demonstrates how drama creates safe spaces for dialogue, critical inquiry and embodied learning.

The summer school follows an experiential learning structure combining drama workshops, group work, reflection, cultural activities and collaborative lesson planning, closely aligned with the ACAδIMIA approach to creative and inclusive learning.

By the end of the course, participants will:

• Understand the core principles of Drama in Education as a pedagogical methodology
• Explore drama conventions and techniques suitable for primary and secondary education
• Gain practical tools for teaching social justice and climate justice topics through drama
• Learn how to adapt global and abstract issues to age-appropriate classroom contexts
• Develop inclusive, participatory and learner-centred teaching strategies
• Design drama-based lesson plans and educational scenarios applicable across subjects
• Strengthen their ability to facilitate dialogue, reflection and ethical inquiry in the classroom

Methodology

The course is based on Drama in Education methodology, drawing on role, improvisation, teacher-in-role, mantle of the expert and forum theatre elements, storytelling and reflective discussion. Learning takes place through active participation, embodied exploration, collaborative creation and structured reflection.

The training balances theory and practice, with short theoretical inputs always followed by hands-on application, group experimentation and collective analysis.

• Welcome and introduction of participants and trainers
• Getting to know each other through drama-based activities
• Presentation of the course structure and learning objectives
• Educational contract: expectations, needs and group agreements
• Introduction to Drama in Education: principles, history and educational value
• Mapping social justice and climate justice themes in different national curricula
• Reflection and evaluation of the day
• Warm-up, trust-building and ensemble work
• Drama conventions and tools for the classroom
• Role, improvisation and fictional contexts as learning frameworks
• Exploring social justice themes through drama (identity, power, inclusion)
• Reflection on facilitation, safety and ethical considerations
• Cultural and experiential group activity
• Evaluation of the day
• Introduction to drama strategies and tools (for language teaching, science teaching, arts, history, geography, citizenship and other subjects)
• Examples of educational scenarios with the EAR methodology – practical application in groups
• Presentation and exchange, lessons learned
• Cultural experiential activity: hands-on ceramic or Cooking workshop
• Evaluation of the day

• Applying Drama in Education in different subjects (citizenship, language, science, geography, arts)
• Adapting drama methods to primary and secondary education
• Inclusive strategies and differentiation through drama
• Group work: designing cross-curricular drama-based lesson plans
• Reflection and evaluation

• Drama for dialogue, debate and democratic participation
• Forum Theatre-inspired approaches to social and environmental issues
• From reflection to action: supporting learner agency
• Group work: refining lesson plans and classroom scenarios
• Presentation and collective feedback
• Evaluation of the day
• Challenges and opportunities of implementing Drama in Education in schools
• Teacher role, facilitation skills and assessment in drama-based learning
• Adapting activities to different institutional contexts
• Finalisation of teaching plans and resource sharing
• Reflection and evaluation
• Presentation of reflection diaries and learning outcomes
• Course evaluation using drama-based methods
• Building professional networks and future collaborations
• Certificates of attendance
• Closing and farewell activities
• Drama in Education is an experiential, process-oriented teaching methodology that uses dramatic action, role and reflection to support learning. It fosters critical thinking, empathy, collaboration and creativity, while enabling learners to engage actively with social, ethical and environmental issues in a protected fictional space.
• The methodology is particularly effective in addressing social justice and climate justice topics, as it allows learners to explore multiple perspectives, confront dilemmas and rehearse possible actions for real-life situations.

Tuition Fee: 600 euro for 7 days/person face to face course .

Free cancellation 90 days before the beginning of the teacher training course.

Cancellation penalty for late cancellation between 90 and 0 days before the course stars: half of the fees for teacher training, 330 euros. In case of late cancellation participants can use half of their fees to register to any course organised by the ACAδIMIA European Teacher Academy for Creative and Inclusive Learning within one year time.