Drama Education for Children with Special Needs
in the context of the Framework for Reference for Elementary Education, Research Year 2009

Masaryk University
Faculty of Education
Department of Education and Department of Social Education


Would like to invite you to a conference with international participation under the patronage of the Dean of the Faculty Josef Trna that will take place from 22 to 23 April 2009.

Drama Education for Children with Special needs in the Context of the Framework of Reference for Elementary Education, Research Year 2009.

The Conference is organised within a Research Scheme Special needs of Children in the Context of the Framework of Reference for Elementary Education.


Important Information and Dates
22. 2. 2009Filling in the electronic application and abstract
8. 3. 2009Payment of the conference fee by a bank transfer
22. 3. 2009Submitting the complete contribution into the electronic application

Web site for registering both the active and non-active participation: www.ped.muni.cz/kdv2009

The organised conference is a part of a research scheme Special needs of Children in the Context of the Framework of Reference for Elementary Education. Content wise it focuses on using drama education in education and teaching children with special educational needs.

Aims and contents focus of the conference:
The aim of this conference is to organise an active meeting of specialists who use drama in education in their work but also to reinforce public awareness regarding the research in the field of drama in education; to put through the practical field with the methodology approaches, enable mutual exchange of experience and information among the participants of the conference, presentations of research projects in the field, their mutual interconnecting as well as outlining further research possibilities; strengthening the position of drama in education in the framework of reference for elementary education.

Main Papers (plenary sessions)
Theme groups (sessions in sections)
  1. Using drama in education when working with disabled.
  2. Using drama in education when working with socially disadvantaged.
  3. Analysis of the current situation of research in the field of drama in education.
  4. Using drama in education in foreign language teaching when working with pupils with developmental learning and behaviour disorders.

The Conference is accompanied with extra events:
On 22 April 2009 there will be a social evening with exhibitions by student theatres; On 23 April 2009 there will be 4 workshops with foreign and Czech teachers, who are involved in educating children with special needs via method of drama in education.

Conference languages: English, Czech

On this website you can register and find further information about the conference.