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DRAMA PEDAGOGY IN CONTEMPORARY EDUCATION AND CULTURE: ANALYSIS OF BEST PRACTICES

Pedagogy and Education , UDC: 37.022 DOI: 10.24412/2076-9121-2025-4-58-79

Authors

  • Nikitina Alexandra Borisovna Ph.D. in Art History
  • Rossinskaya Anastasia Nikolayevna Ph.D. in Pedagogy

Annotation

This research explores the professional demand for graduates of master’s programmes in drama pedagogy to describe and systematise the educational spaces and situations where its practices are currently relevant and to forecast its further integration into education. Surveys and focus groups reveal that practices of drama pedagogy are most widely sought in non-formal education, including within the broad spheres of inclusion, culture, leisure, and extracurricular education. The study also notes a growing penetration of these practices into general education and higher education. The methods of drama pedagogy prove particularly valuable for achieving meta-subject and personal learning outcomes, specifically for developing «soft skills», emotional intelligence, and communicative competencies. The study concludes that drama pedagogy represents a rapidly developing field within modern pedagogy, one capable of addressing numerous challenges of the contemporary social situation.
Tags:
drama pedagogy , drama-pedagogical practices , educational environment , methods of drama pedagogy , non-formal education
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