Abstract

This thesis was attempted to survey the historic development of the drama education at senior high schools and vocational high schools in Taiwan. Wish it can offer a brief history for those who are interested in further understanding in the drama education and teenager theater in Taiwan as well as the relevant reference for the scholars in this field in this future. The modern theater movement in Taiwan approached its climax around nineteen seventies to the five years Experimental Theater Festivals at nineteen eighties. The pioneers had explored a new era for the history of Taiwan modern theater. In only about twenty years, the modern theater was investigated from barely poverty to vivaciously prosperity, it should be counted as another Taiwan miracle. As the other aspects in Taiwan miracles, professional education has played an essential role in promotion, especially the theater departments in universities and colleges。 Though the courses of arts and humanities of the nine-years school education has just started, and the readjusted temporary outline of senior high school courses shows its increasing emphasis on arts, yet till at present, all the studies and strategies which concerned with the development of drama education always neglected the establishment and potentialities of the drama education in the senior high schools and vocational high schools. Even the research of its environment and the continuities of teaching experiences is absent too, hence the importance of investigating the development of drama education at senior high schools and vocational high schools in Taiwan is apparent. This study has investigated the founding process of all the drama departments of the senior high schools and vocational high schools, in the meantime I’ve tried to survey its meaning after summing up all the facts and situations. The major objectives of this report include: the motif and background, the aims of this research; also about education of the arts, the education especially for the talented children the theory and practice of the teenager’s theater education,etc..

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