Abstract
In the field of Care worker training, specialists always put emphasis on the necessity of the students to make a direct correlation between the “theories” they learn in the classroom and the “practical work” they experience. However, it must be said that the concrete way of realizing it has not been enough investigated. This study attempts to present a new method for realizing it through “Care Practice Play”, that is, the play or drama that second-year students of a care worker training school collaborate with each other in writing, based on their own experience in their practical work, and the students themselves play the roles. The present writer, lecturer of a care worker training school, has directed “Care Practice Play” for thirteen years and it is felt by experience that producing plays in cooperation is very effective in the guidance after “practical work”. The ultimate aim of this study is to prove objectively the effectiveness of this method of employing theatrical plays, and this research begins on analyzing semi-structured interviews with 20 graduates who had experienced making “Care Practice Play” at the writer’s school. The results showed 3 core reflection places: ≪ scenario production process ≫, ≪ rehearsal in the play scene ≫, and ≪ play announcement for all the students at school ≫. Moreover, 3 points of view concerned with each reflection place also appeared: ≪ viewpoint of classmates in scenario production process ≫, ≪ viewpoint of Characters in the play scene ≫, and ≪ view point of audiences ≫. This investigation made it clear that through making “Care Practice Play”, the students were required to look back on their practice from different angles, and that leads, for example, to learn the control of feelings, to cultivate a spirit of patience or to find a mirror of the ideal care worker, etc… After this, a next plan is to make detail investigation of the scripts of all the plays by analyzing how these 3 points are concerned and by comparing “Care Practice Play” with other drama education methods. It will reveal the validity of “Care Practice Play” which helps care worker students to combine Theory and Practice.
