The educational dimension of theatrical practice in the San Marino reality: between history, project and community

Description

Little has been done so far to recover the history and above all the impact that theatrical activities have had on civil life in San Marino over the last fifty years with particular attention to the relationship and intersection between theatre/society, where the theater has established itself as a space of development and intervention in community life. For this reason it is considered essential to start an analysis of the activities managed by the DSU in collaboration with the Cultural Institutes - Performing Arts Section, even those that involved schools.

Learning outcomes

The winner of the tender will have to collaborate in research on the educational dimension of theater in order to achieve the objectives set by the research itself as summarized below.

The objective of the research is to explore the role played in the past and potentially assumed in the near future by theatrical activities in the social and cultural life of the San Marino community.

Both the experiences implemented in the territory which can be configured as active citizenship interventions and, in the school context, the pedagogical-training activities, the interventions in potentially critical contexts or in the presence of hardship and integration difficulties will be taken into consideration. In particular, the initiatives that involved the then Department of Education, now the Department of Human Sciences, will be investigated, also through the activities carried out by the Center for Research and Teaching, Theater and Citizenship. The research will primarily analyze the educational dimension of theatrical practice with a view to making the activity of the Center for Theater and Citizenship Research and Teaching more efficient and incisive.

Methods

• Reconstruction of data based on documents in possession of the DSU and the Cultural Institutes
• Collection and analysis of materials and documents in possession of the School
• Interviews with privileged witnesses
• Focus groups with students/former students, teachers
• Analysis of similar realities on Italian territory