Theater in Schools
Theater in Schools (Teaching degree)
The teacher training extension “Theater in Schools” opens up new opportunities for teachers to inspire and encourage their students in the classroom. This is because the subject of performing arts goes beyond the boundaries of classical teaching and offers students the chance to develop their creativity and personality.
- Degree
- Teaching degree
- Duration of studies in semester
- 4
- Start of degree program
- Winter semester
- Study location
- Erlangen
- Number of students
- 1-50
- Subject group
- Teaching Degree, Language and Cultural Studies
- Teaching language
- completely in German
- Admission Requirements
- Admission-free with admission requirements
What is the degree program about?
The teaching degree program Theater in Schools (teacher training for elementary school, middle school, secondary school, high school and for FOS/BOS) is not an independent degree program, but an extension subject in the teaching degree program. This means that you can only study the course in the teaching degree program and there exclusively as a so-called “third subject” in addition to the first and second subject.
Among the educational policy demands for forward-looking teaching concepts such as open instruction, project instruction, etc., theater plays a central role.
Furthermore, theater in school can be understood as cultural practice. A view of the performative practices of children and adolescents based on cultural and educational theory enables school theater to reflect and aesthetically shape current changes in the cultural-social reality of life (e.g. globalization, transculturality, (post-)digitality) in their relevance as transformation mechanisms of cultural-social practice.
Due to the close connection of the Theater in Schools program to the Chair of Education with a focus on culture and aesthetic practice, current research findings, such as from research on (post-)digital cultural youth worlds, are incorporated into the theory and practice of the seminars. Students thus gain an expanded view grounded in cultural and educational theory that extends beyond theatrical work to school and teaching in general.
The subject Performing Play/Theater (DS) is offered at the Department of Education of the Faculty of Philosophy and Department of Theology at FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg in cooperation with the Department of Theater and Media Studies. The number of training places is limited to 20. Admission to the program is only possible in the winter semester.
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The program comprises 4 semesters, 38-40 semester-week hours (SWS) and at least 45 ECTS. It concludes with the teaching qualification for “Theater in Schools” with the first state examination. It consists of a total of 8 modules with subject-specific (pedagogy and theater studies), subject-specific didactic and subject-specific practical seminars.
In addition to a well-founded scientific orientation, the focus is on practical seminars. The subject-theoretical modules have the following emphases:
- Theater theory
- Aesthetics of contemporary theater
- Cultural theory
- subject theory and
- educational theory.
The specialized practical seminars offer a broad spectrum on contemporary theatrical aesthetics, forms of play, and performative arts (e.g., gametheater, performance, site specific, research theater, biographical theater, etc.).
In addition to basic training, students work increasingly in projects (guided and free) to appropriately handle the alternating interrogation and reflection of theory and practice.
Specialized practice is held in block sessions, making it possible for in-service teachers* to take it (usually 4-5 Friday/Saturday units per semester).
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No previous theatrical training is necessary for admission to the DS extension program. What is desirable, however, is openness to experimental forms of theatrical education as well as the willingness to be irritated in one’s ways of perceiving, thinking and acting, to reflect on these critically and to want to turn ambivalences and contradictions productively in and for the school context.
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- Admission requirements (first semester)
- Admission-free with admission requirements
- Admission requirements (higher semester)
- free with restriction
- Application deadline winter semester
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15.07.
Language skills
- German language skills for international applicants
- DSH 2 or equivalent
- Details and notes
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Due to the special requirements of the program and in the interest of a successful study, we offer to advise applicants in advance in writing or orally. Interested students do not need to have previous experience in theater or theater pedagogy.
The application for admission to the extension subject Performing Arts must be submitted in writing to the Institute of Education no later than July 15 for the following winter semester on the application form provided.
The following additional application documents must be submitted:
- Tabular curriculum vitae
- Copies of certificates (certified copies)
- Current certificate of enrollment
- Written elaboration of 2-3 theses of about one DIN A4 page on a given topic, which will be published on the homepage of the teaching degree program starting in spring.
The decision is made by a selection committee consisting of three lecturers involved in the extension subject who are authorized to conduct examinations. All applicants will receive feedback in August.
Applications should be sent to the following address:
Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg
Institute for Pedagogy
Chair of Pedagogy
Bismarckstr. 1, 91054 Erlangen
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