China News Service, Beijing, June 9 (Li Shuangnan) "Children's plays have educational functions, but not equal to boring preaching." Ouyang Yibing, a famous playwright and former dean of the China Children's Art Theatre, in the seventh training of children's drama education teachers The class said.
Ouyang Yibing, a famous playwright and former dean of the China Children's Art Theater, gave online lectures. Photo courtesy of Chinese Children's Literature Research Association
From the 4th to the 9th, the seventh children's drama education teacher training course jointly organized by the China Children's Literature Research Association, the Central Academy of Culture and Tourism Management, and the China Children's Culture and Arts Promotion Association Drama Education Professional Committee was held online from home and abroad More than 300 children's drama teachers participated in this "cloud training".
In this issue of "Cloud Training", many well-known industry experts are invited to give online lectures, covering the teaching methods of drama education, new media operations, art education institutions, children's literature creation, children's drama creation, etc. Xu Jun, an associate professor at the Shanghai Theatre Academy, said that the first stage of educational drama is to practice, vocalize, character characterize, and use sensory perception to provide students with the ability to relax, trust others, and pay attention; then go further, with a small amount of Materials, improvisation, the development of a story or a drama, and then participate in discussion, exploration, appreciation and learning. "Therefore, educational drama is basically not oriented towards performance." Xu Jun said.
Wang Yimei, a famous writer of children's literature, pointed out that the choice of scripts for children's plays should start with reading the text. "I think the selection criteria include age-appropriate, stage-appropriate, team-performing, and new and beautiful."
The training also discussed the broader current art of children. Wang Zhigeng, director of the Children’s Library of the National Library of China, expressed his observations on the “art design of children’s picture books”. "Picture books (picture books) have now become a comprehensive form of children's art, which incorporates artistic techniques such as literature, painting, drama, music, movies, games." He believes that a good picture book is like a A small movie can bring an extraordinary reading experience to readers large and small.
"Due to the epidemic this year, we tried the'cloud training' method for the first time." Ma Li, secretary general of the Children's Drama Committee of the China Children's Literature Research Association, told reporters from China News that the "cloud training" for children's drama teachers will be normalized in the future. Held to train more teachers who are interested in children's drama. (Finish)