"The things couldn't fit in my suitcase"

Αθήνα, 22/03/2025, εργαστήριο για εκπαιδευτικούς, Ömer Adıgüzel, Zeki Özen

"The things couldn't fit in my suitcase"

Dr. Ömer Adıgüzel
Prof. University Faculty of Educational Sciences, Turkey

Zeki Özen
Assoc. Prof. Ankara University Faculty of Educational Sciences, Turkey

WORKSHOP

At Athens 2025 International Conference "Theatre/Drama & Inclusive Education"

21-23 of March 2025

Hellenic Theatre/Drama & Education Network (TENet-Gr)

Language: English,
Limited number of participants
 

Workshop short description

In this workshop, the process of displacement of Romani people living in the Tarlabaşı district of Istanbul within the scope of urban transformation will be examined through newspaper articles and photographs from the period when the relevant event took place.

This situation will be evaluated through concepts such as being someone else, being the other, and the phenomenon of migration in the workshop, which will be structured with a process drama approach.

For whom: The workshop is aimed at any person who is keen to explore and discuss being someone else, being the other, and the phenomenon of migration

Language: English, basic knowledge of the language is required. However, this will not prevent you from taking part

Participants should wear comfortable (sporty) clothes
Workshop includes exercises with possible physical contact.

Ömer Adıgüzel He was born in 1967 in Ankara. Ankara University Faculty of Educational Sciences (1989). He worked as a research assistant in Departments of Fine Arts Education and Classroom Teaching between 1990 and 2003. He completed his master's degree in 1993 and doctorate in 2000 in Ankara University Department of Fine Arts Education. He studied language in 1992 with the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Scholarship and in the Department of Culture Pedagogy at the Berlin School of Fine Arts (now Berlin University of Fine Arts) between 1996-1998. In 1998, he completed the program of the Institute of Play and Theater Pedagogy of the same faculty (Hdk). He is one of the executives of Ankara University’s Creative Drama Master’s Program (with and without thesis). In 2003, he was appointed as Assistant Professor at the Department of Classroom Teaching-Elementary Education at Ankara University Faculty of Educational Sciences. He was appointed as Associate Professor in 2011 and Professor in 2017 in the field of Fine Arts Education. In 2003, he studied at the Fine Arts University of Berlin with a postdoctoral research scholarship from the Finance Foundation. Since 2006 he has been carrying out courses in Drama in Education Department Master’s Program at Anadolu University. In 2007, he studied researches with DAAD scholarship as a guest scientist at Hannover University. He works on fields such as creative drama, museum education, drama at museums, children's museums, cultural pedagogy, folk dances, etc. He conducts workshops in different areas of creative drama in Turkey and abroad.

Zeki Özen is an Associate Professor in Ankara University, Faculty of Educational Sciences. His academic studies are on drama, children's games and art education. He graduated from Ankara University, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Elementary Education in 2003. During his university education, he became interested in drama in education. He held various positions in the field of facilitation/training and social communities. Between 2004-2005, he worked as a volunteer worker in Mourne Grange Camphill Community with disabled people in an educational and living institution in Northern Ireland. In 2005, he completed the Drama Teaching Programme run by the Turkish Contemporary Drama Association. Between 2005-2011, Zeki was a student at the Creative Drama Master’s Programme, at the Institute of Educational Sciences, Ankara University. At the same time, he was a board member at the Turkish Contemporary Drama Association. He worked as a drama teacher at TED Ankara College between 2005-2006 and at Ankara University Development Foundation Private Schools during 2006-2010. Since 2010, Zeki has been working in Ankara University Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Elementary Education. In 2018, he completed his Ph.D. study at Ankara University, Institute of Educational Sciences, Department of Fine Arts Education. He is educator and academic advisor for Ankara University Faculty of Educational Science Drama Society. He produced and directed many plays with university students and youths in different themes out of improvisations. Some of the themes in these plays are: Discrimination, Women's issues, Criticism about the education system