- Нечерда, В. Б. (2017) Forum-Theater as a Form of Realization of "Philosophy for Children": to the Issue of Education of Adolescents of Vulnerable Categories Вісник Житомирського державного університету імені Івана Франка : Педагогічні науки, 5 (91). pp. 72-76. ISSN 2076-6173
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Abstract
The article considers one of the acute problems of our time – the vulnerability of adolescents. The author studies domestic and foreign psycho-pedagogical literature, determines the concept of vulnerability, characterizes adolescents of vulnerable categories and emphasizes that most vulnerable teenagers are characterized by intolerance, prejudice, an indifferent social position, manifestations of antisocial behavior and formal thinking. The article also reveals the advantages of the "Philosophy for Children" methodology, in particular, the form of its implementation as a school theater. The focus of the researcher is the features of the forum theater as an interactive form of training and education of students and its effectiveness in dealing with adolescents of vulnerable categories. The author gives the results of individual interviews and group interviews in experimental educational institutions. Their data indicate that adolescents of vulnerable categories are prone to distrust, uncertainty, aggression to the world around them. Forum-theater responds to the internal state of vulnerable teenagers, allows it to be taken outside and thereby overcome. In the author's opinion, the use of the peer-to-peer method is especially important in this case. The researcher comes to the conclusion that the forum-theater as a form of implementation of the methodology "Philosophy for Children" contributes to the formation critical, creative, caring thinking in adolescents of vulnerable categories. Thus, this methodology, and forum-theater, in particular, is a platform for powerful transformations in the educational environment of general educational institutions.
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