Affective Education through the Art of Animation Theatre

Ida Hamre 
(Danish University of Education, Denmark)

Abstract: The starting point for this paper is my Ph.D. dissertation “Animation Theatre as an Art and as an Element of Aesthetic Development and Education” (Animation Theatre is a wider conception of Puppet Theatre).
  My starting point is also my later practical-pedagogical project called “The Learning Potential and Figurative Language of Animation Theatre — a Survey of Basic Aesthetic Learning Processes, Content Areas and Teacher Qualifications”.
These projects have shown that animation theatre holds great potential in terms of making way for the pupil’s aesthetic, emotional, and ethical learning and “Bildung” (German concept for the general cultural and social development of the individual).
  In the article I focus on some of the potential for this form of theatre.

Key words: typical communication, confidential knowledge, emotional learning and working together, humor and utopia