Gender education through creating Internet theatre in education

Abstract

In Taiwan, gender equity and gender issues in education are beginning to open up and become a hot topic. Curriculum materials are now being developed, professional publications are beginning to cover gender equity issues, a serious of professional workshops are devoting time to it, and individual teacher educators are starting to become concerned about it. In response to the educational policy of our country, the Internet theater gender program is designed to achieve gender equity for K 5-6 primary school students. The Internet theatre project takes advantage of computer support learning community and theatre education. The introduction of Internet theatre into the gender education presents both an opportunity to expand the power of teaching and learning gender issues through electronic facilitation of the Internet technology to exploit the enhanced features of interactive hypermedia and the educational, entertaining value of theatre education. It intends to give learners a safe, entertaining, intellectual and supervised opportunity to examine their own attitudes, behaviors and living experience regarding gender issues through interactive drama and discussion.