Abstract
Education has an important role in protecting the intangible cultural heritage, which is an important part of cultural identity, and transferring it to the next generations. In the Protecting Intangible Cultural Heritage Agreement that is accepted by United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), it is indicated that it is necessary to arrange educational, sensibility increasing and informative programs that target the general of the society and especially the youth. In line with this target, there are some creative drama practices based on teaching with games about intangible cultural heritage with reference to wedding example. The themes of the creative drama practices have been designed before by the researcher and the drama workshop has been performed by primary school teacher candidates. In the essay, the practice example has been represented in a detailed way; the essay includes the studies of the teacher candidates and their opinions during and after the practices have been indicated in the essay. As a result of the study, it is put forth that the young are interested in wedding traditions. The teacher candidates think that intangible wedding traditions have to be kept alive and creative drama can be used as an effective way in the education of the intangible cultural education. In the frame of the results, it is planned to evaluate the practice results of creative drama activities about the heritage fields told in the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, which are: “oral traditions and expressions, performance arts, other social practices, rituals and feasts, practices and information about nature and universe, handicrafts tradition”.
Highlights
Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, which was accepted on 17th October 2003 at 32nd General Conference of UNESCO and became valid on 20th April 2006, has come up as a result of a long research and preparation process
Intangible cultural heritage is defined as the practices, representations, expressions, knowledge, skills―as well as the instruments, objects, artefacts and cultural spaces associated therewith―that communities, groups and, in some cases, individuals recognize as part of their cultural heritage
Teacher candidates think that creative drama can be used effectively in teaching intangible cultural heritage
Summary
Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, which was accepted on 17th October 2003 at 32nd General Conference of UNESCO and became valid on 20th April 2006, has come up as a result of a long research and preparation process. Dikici and Gündoğdu (2008) presented the close relationship between Turkish culture and drama practices with observing that teacher candidates participates creative drama activities eagerly They said that the most important reason for this is that Turkish public isn’t stranger to drama activities because of traditional children’s game, rituals held in Anatolia and traditional ceremonies. Intangible cultural heritage (wedding traditions) themed study has been carried on with Niğde University Faculty of Education Primary School Teaching Department Drama lesson students. The basic aim of creative application is to create awareness in the primary school teacher candidates who will serve about intangible cultural heritage and make them realize that they can make use of creative drama activities. At the end of this activity, which was done for the communication, the participants asked to “imagine themselves dancing in a wedding, acting in appropriate according to this role and stop moving when the music ended”. This pole is sticked in front of the wedding house
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