The English version is available below La cultura classica come fonte di ispirazione, il mito come occasione per riscoprire a tutti i livelli la dimensione del racconto, il teatro come straordinario strumento per trasformarlo in azione. E, ancora, le Rappresentazioni Classiche dell’Istituto Nazionale del Dramma Antico come testimonianza di quanto questo patrimonio culturale riesca ancora a parlare all’uomo contemporaneo, senza distinzioni e selezioni se non quelle basate sulla passione per i grandi drammaturghi dell’antichità. Sono, questi, alcuni dei temi che animano il ciclo di laboratori tenuti proprio in questi giorni presso l’Università Roger Williams di Bristol da Alan Canestrari, Professore Associato di History Education a Roger Williams, e da Giuseppina Norcia addetto culturale dell’Istituto Nazionale del dramma Antico. Sebbene dedicato principalmente agli studenti della School of Education della Roger Williams University e agli insegnanti che vogliano arricchire la loro proposta didattica, il ciclo di laboratori è aperto a chiunque sia interessato a prendervi parte. “Questi laboratori costituiscono una straordinaria esperienza umana e professionale. Perfettamente in linea con i principi fondanti dell’Istituto Nazionale del Dramma Antico e della Roger Williams University – School of Education, essi mirano a diffondere la conoscenza della cultura classica sia a livello individuale, sia nei piani di studio, dalle scuole elementari all’università. La sfida non sta dunque nel trasmettere a un gruppo di insegnanti o di futuri insegnanti una molteplicità di contenuti nel minor tempo possibile, ma nel creare insieme un metodo che permetta di approfondire alcuni nuclei tematici del mito e del dramma antico “rimodellandoli” liberamente in base alla loro materia di insegnamento e alle esigenze, all’età, all’indirizzo di studi dei loro allievi. Attraverso il dialogo con i partecipanti coinvolti in questa indagine, emerge una dimensione appassionante degli studi umanistici e del concetto stesso di umanesimo: una prospettiva sulle cose e sul mondo, una capacità di leggerne le interconnessioni con intelligenza e creatività, una visione della cultura come forma di felicità”. A Bridge to Understanding: Ancient Greek Drama Visits Roger Williams University, Bristol, Rhode IslandIs Greek mythology and drama a source of inspiration for area teachers and students? Does knowledge of classical Greek culture inform teaching and learning in area schools? Are teachers designing and developing inquiry-based instruction that integrates Greek history, literature, and the arts to engage students? The answer is yes, indeed for some Roger Williams University (RWU) pre-service teachers and teachers from Rhode Island and Massachusetts who attended Classically Greek: A Humanities Workshop for Teachers. The four hour workshop offered on June 12, 14, 19, 21, 26 and 28 and hosted by Professor Alan S. Canestrari, Associate Professor of History Education provided a particularly interesting and unique opportunity for the teachers to work directly with Giuseppina Norcia, cultural advisor to the Istituto Nazionale del Dramma Antico (INDA) in Siracusa, Italy. Ms. Norcia is at the Bristol campus as a result of the RWU Visiting Scholar Program, efforts by the RWU School of Education and grants provided by Rhode Island Teacher Education Renewal (RITER) and Bank of America. “The workshop was inspired by the drama and emotions surrounding the plays staged at the annual Greek Drama Festival in Siracusa, Italy each spring. The festival is a rich expression of Greek culture and a simulation of what it might have been like for the ancients to witness a play scripted by poets like Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides. Thousands of spectators, part of a standing-room only crowd, file into the theater under the stars, some with pillows to cushion themselves from the granite seats, eagerly await the first sound of powerful dialogue and emotion. The crowd is spellbound, more silent than could be imagined of an audience of this size. Every night the crowd is treated to tragedies, satires, comedies, whose plots were inspired by Greek mythology. The workshop featured a variety of discovery learning activities including reader’s theater, interpretation of video vignettes depicting some of the recent festival plays, and a historical retrospective chronicling some of the most important moments since 1936. The workshop was an extraordinary professional experience and was perfectly aligned with the missions of the INDA, Roger Williams University and the School of Education which all seek to “bridge the world” with historical and cultural knowledge in order to foster mutual understanding, knowledge of content and creative teaching and learning. The challenge was not to transmit the entire corpus of content but rather to explore inquiry-based methods and selected elements of Greek drama to deepen practitioner knowledge as a springboard to effective classroom instruction and enduring learning. The lively dialogue that emerged led to a new and engaging concern for humanism and the use of the humanities as an integrating device in the classroom and as a world prospective and a vision of culture as a form of happiness”.
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