The European Journal of Social & Behavioural Sciences
Online ISSN: 2301-2218
European Publisher
Evaluating Students’ Agency and Development of Ownership in a Collaborative Playmaking Project
Table 1: Happenings of the playmaking Project
| What happened during each lesson within the process? | |
| x. | Music lesson, I told students about the project and asked, if they wanted to participate. |
| 1. | Brainstorming activity, what do you think about climate change. |
| 2. | Making a Drama contract, improvisation practice about people and climate change |
| x. | English lesson, students wrote poems about climate change |
| 3. | Composing music about the poems |
| 4. | Watching films about CC, only 4 students brought films. |
| 5. | Brain storming about the message of the performance (what are the reasons for CC) |
| 6. | How to convince or persuade people? – pair work |
| 7. | Negotiating the structure of the performance, composing the songs in groups |
| 8. | Renegotiating participation, voting on the structure of the performance. Students wanted to play a game, planning the scenes in groups |
| 9. | Acting exercises, making anti-commercials |
| 10. | Planning the beginning of the performance |
| 11. | Renegotiating the beginning of the performance |
| 12. | Music rehearsals, students didn’t bring any prop, even though they had been asked to |
| 13. | Elaborating role characters |
| 14. | Crises: This is not our performance! Discussing with the whole class and with individual students. |
| 15. | Preparing the scenes in groups |
| 16. | Elaborating the development of the characters, discussions in pairs and with the whole class. Voting on the proposals. |
| 17. | No more rehearsals during sports lessons. Music rehearsals, everybody except one student agreed to take a solo in singing |
| 18. | Isn’t everybody coming to performance? Critical discussion, students solved the situation and took responsibility. After the discussion the students rehearsed very well. |
| 19. | Groups worked with pictures and videos |
| 20. | Rehearsals, students gave feedback to each other. |
| 21. | Finishing with pictures and videos, practicing acting |
| 22. | Designing the scenography with the whole class. |
| 23. | Final preparation of the scenes. Didn’t manage to have rehearsals with the whole class. |
| 24. | Dress rehearsals, which didn’t work out well, one student disturbed with a microphone |
| 25. | Last rehearsals, two girls hesitated on coming to perform |
| 26. | Dress rehearsals to a test audience |
| 27. | Performance |