chapter
01 Reflection: Questioning the Discourse on Future Education

1.
Are the current debates about future education healthy? 4
2.
10 Current Directions for Future Education
3.
Are you developing the skills to thrive in the future? 21
4.
We need to broaden the discourse on future education.
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chapter
02 Encounter: Arts Education and Educational Theater

1.
Art and Education Meet 37
2.
The term and concept of arts education 43
3.
Educational Theater as a Core Branch of Arts Education 52
4.
64 Reasons Why Arts Education and Educational Theater Are Necessary for Future Education
Author Talk #1 - Educational Theater and Future Education 71

chapter
03 Connection: Educational Theater and Classes

1.
82 Reasons to Incorporate Educational Theater into Classes
2.
Characteristics of Educational Theater as a Class 83
3.
How to Design Educational Theater as a Classroom Lesson 91
4.
Proposal 115

chapter
04 Practice: Incorporating educational theater into my classroom

1.
120 Case Studies of Educational Theater Classes
2.
Lesson 121 for Self-Understanding
3.
Lesson 128 for Community
4.
Lesson 136 for Historical Exploration
5.
Lesson 144 for Earthlings
6.
148 Steps to Take Your Educational Drama Class to the Next Level

chapter
05 Expansion: Expanding the Horizons of Educational Theater

1.
Expanding Educational Theatre in Schools 156
2.
Expanding Educational Theatre Beyond Schools 163
3.
Expanding Educational Theatre Socially 172
4.
If you want to know more about educational theater and arts education, 179

chapter
06 Emergency: Challenges and Tasks of Educational Theater

1.
Challenges Facing Educational Theater 187
2.
Expectations and Potentials of Educational Theater 190
3.
Authors' Message to Readers 192
Author Talk #2 - The Direction of Educational Theater 194

preface

Why am I talking about educational theater now? These are days when the advancement of digital technology is intersecting the human ecosystem with joy and sorrow.
As a result of our failure to control the pace of technological advancement, the very pace itself has become an object of fear.
The accelerated pace of technological innovation following the pandemic has also spread to the education sector.
In a short period of time, the school system has shifted to an edutech-centric focus, and digital literacy has emerged as students' most important future competency.
Everyone says this is a change of the times and a trend.
Rather than approaching these changes in a deconstructive and macroscopic way, the educational field is only hastily adapting and conforming to them, and there are few voices raising questions about their appropriateness or suggesting alternatives.
Education, already chaotic, has lost its center and direction, drifting here and there according to the winds of policy and politics.


In this book, the authors ask:
Is the current discourse on future education sufficiently thoughtful and reflective? Is digital education, as it is today, truly the top priority for future education we should be pursuing? Are our children truly developing the skills to navigate the world? Why are educational theater and arts education so important to us in this day and age? How can educational theater serve as a medium for deepening teaching and learning?

The authors aim to focus on what is being missed in the current 'frame' and super-strong 'drive' of future education and critically reflect on it.
And we want to bring back to the world the imagination, interest in people, and warmth of children that are buried in the flood of digital devices.
So that we can recover the teaching and learning that could be lost through edutech through educational theater.


I would like to express my gratitude to Park Young-sa's Deputy Editors Jo Jeong-bin and Jo Yeong-eun for their hard work in publishing this book, and to Ms. Lee Myeong-ju for reading and proofreading the manuscript with all her heart.
I hope that educational theater will give many people the strength to live in this world.

Kwon Kyung-hee and Kim Byeong-ju