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| MISSION
STATEMENT: The Puppetry in Education and Therapy Committee (PIE&T):
identifies P of A members, as well as non-members (puppeteers, educators,
and therapists), who work in the areas of Puppetry in Education and
Therapy; encourages and facilitates dialogue and exchange of information,
concepts, approaches, materials, projects, and research; and identifies
and promotes standards of excellence in PIE&T. |
2004-2005
GOALS:
The Puppetry in Education & Therapy Committee will:
- Build and maintain a database of members of P of A, as
well as non-members, who work in the areas of Puppetry in Education
& Therapy. (Non-members will be encouraged to join P of A!)
This database will include: educators and therapists who use puppetry
in their work; puppeteers, whose work focuses on education; people
who teach about puppetry in education or therapy; and puppeteers
who teach puppetry.
- Create pages for the P of A Website with informative
materials for puppeteers, educators, and therapists and a list
of puppeteers who work in PIE&T in the United States and Canada.
- Solicit articles from P of A members, as well as others
in the field, on the topic of Puppetry in Education and Therapy.
The articles have been complied and edited by Matthew Bernier
and Judith O’Hare into a book titled: Puppetry in Education
and Therapy: Unlocking Doors to the Mind.
The book will provide the rationale for PIE&T in schools,
hospitals, guidance programs, therapy programs, scouting, religious
education, etc. The book will provide a broad view of philosophies
and examples of how puppetry is used to educate and how it is
used as a therapeutic tool. (UNIMA International published a similar
book last year called "The Puppet: What a Miracle.”)
Puppetry in Education and Therapy: Unlocking Doors to the Mind
is scheduled to be available at the Puppets:Education Magic Institute
June 29-30, July1, 2005. Authors will be available for book signings.
- Explore ways to get communication going among members
of P of A to stimulate PIE&T workshops and meetings at
Regional and National Festivals via Symposiums, Round Table discussions,
workshops targeting education and therapy.
- Make plans for a semi-annual puppet conference for educators
in a different location in the US and/or Canada, every other summer,
perhaps building on the Puppets:Education Magic Institute,
which began at a PofA Festival in 1989 and has continued each
summer since that time.
- Explore the inclusion of PIE&T symposiums at all
Regional and National Festivals. (Judith O’Hare has moderated
a Puppetry in Education Symposium at the last 4-5 National Festivals
and at the NE/Mid-Atlantic Regional Festivals.)
- Document terminology, definitions, philosophies, and
approaches that help to explain and differentiate “puppetry
in education”, “puppetry education” and “therapeutic
puppetry”.
- Develop strategies and resources for teachers and programs
to promote quality puppetry in education and puppetry education
(i.e., course descriptions, syllabi, teaching aids, workshop goals
and objectives, bibliographies, etc.).
- Develop a puppetry workshop leader training to be offered
at P of A festivals for people who want to learn how to teach
workshops or to improve on their workshop leader skills. (Rationale:
Many workshop teachers have lots of puppetry experience and skills
but do not necessarily have the skills in developing and presenting
workshops.)
- Identify education and therapy organizations and publications
of interest to those working in PIE&T. Publish links
to those resources.
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