Working (LATT)erally: One Experience of Arts Education in South Korea

Abstract

This paper reflects upon the partnership between LATT Children's Theatre in the Republic of Korea and Queensland University of Technology, Performance Studies. In January 2006, eight drama teaching students from Queensland University of Technology (QUT) Performance Studies department travelled with two Performance Studies staff members and a project co-ordinator to run LATT Theatre Company's winter arts camps. These camps used arts education pedagogies to teach students aged between eight and fifteen years English as a Second Language. The paper dissects what both the Korean students learned about the arts and what QUT drama students learned about teaching the arts. An earlier version of this paper has been presented previously in Lowdown, Australia's youth arts magazine.

Keywords:

• ARTS EDUCATION
• ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE
• INTERNATIONALISATION
• ARTS PEDAGOGY
• DRAMA PEDAGOGY

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Sandra Gattenhof

Sandra Gattenhof is a lecturer in the Creative Industries Faculty (Performance Studies), Queensland University of Technology. She is the President of Drama Australia and current editor of Australian Drama Education Magazine (ADEM) for Drama Australia, education editor for Lowdown—Youth Performing Arts Magazine, member of Queensland Arts Council Accreditation Council and working party member of Young IDEAS for International Drama/Theatre in Education Association. She is past president of Drama Queensland, board member of both Young People and the Arts Australia (YPPA) and Contact Inc. Her research interests include contemporary performance, drama education, new media/interactive teaching environments and theatre for young people.