CASE

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CASE

• Tomas Grysell and
• Karin Ågren 2007-01-25

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Case bank

• The Departement of Legal science
• Personel and short presentation
• Instructions for users
• What to read or prepare

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13 different cases

• A fictive Departement
• Staff of 120 persons
• Typical situations and problems
• Fictive persons and identities
• Realistic scenarios

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Background

• In our courses for university teachers we have
  tried different forms of drama and
  interpretations to illustrate and understand
  complex issues in teaching and learning.

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Background

• Our model is a tool for transforming difficult
  questions and issues to a training ground for
  dialogue, action and understanding of human
  behaviour in our university environment.
• We also become actively engaged with our
  participants, developing relationships and trust,
  and having a very good time.

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Augusto Boal (1939-, Brazil)

• With an inspiration in Augusto Boals work around
  Forum Theatre, we have developed a special method
  of understanding and solving complex problems in
  human relations, and in our context of teaching
  and learning.
• Boal developed a form of theatre from traditional
  monologues at stage into a form based on a
  dialogue between audience and stage.
• In our model, all course participants are engaged
  in a role play or a form of forum theatre. The
  choice of activity is based on the specified
  learning outcomes for each course. Common themes
  are gender, diversity, and balance of power

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Theatre of the Oppressed

• To bring the audience into active relationship
  with the performed event
• Background information
• The games
• Structured exercises such as Forum Theather

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Objectives

• Engaging in performance can bring forward
  questions, experiences and issues that sometimes
  are difficult to express in words.
• We want to discuss and share our model, the games
  and exercises, with the participants in this
  workshop.

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Instructions - role play

• The situation a meeting at a department, with 4
  persons present
• Form 4 groups
• Each group reads one of the roles
• Discuss the information you have received, form a
  strategy for the meeting
• Decide who will act in each group
• Play!

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Instructions - role play

• We will break after a while, the actors return
  to their groups
• Reformulate strategies, if necessary
• Assign new actor
• Continue to play!

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Discussion - role play

• What happened?
• Could you fulfill your strategies?
• Were there conflicting information, what does
  this mean?
• This is a way to raise the awareness of intricate
  situations and problems in the academy - and to
  practise how to tackle them!