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How effective is the combination of Intercultural Story-Telling and Meditation as a Therapeutic Tool in combating Stude

How effective is the combination of Intercultural Story-Telling and Meditation as a Therapeutic Tool in combating Student-Teacher Burnout?. Tríona Stokes M.A. Ruth Forrest M.Ed. Froebel College of Education. Dublin, IRELAND. Rationale. The Context Requests by students Group Discussion

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How effective is the combination of Intercultural Story-Telling and Meditation as a Therapeutic Tool in combating Stude

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  1. How effective is the combination of Intercultural Story-Telling and Meditation as a Therapeutic Tool in combating Student-Teacher Burnout? Tríona Stokes M.A. Ruth Forrest M.Ed. Froebel College of Education. Dublin, IRELAND

  2. Rationale • The Context • Requests by students • Group Discussion • Needs analysis • Towards a model of engagement

  3. Student-Welfare • Physical • Mental • Emotional • Psychological • Spiritual • Social

  4. Drama as Therapy • Educational Drama • Therapeutic Application • Group Dynamic • Artistic Therapy • Drama therapy is mainly an artistic therapy which gives opportunities fro expanding our perceptions and understanding of the world, through witnessing the drama in the world of theatre (Jennings, 1998:33).

  5. An interpretation of the Integrative Framework for Drama Therapy of Emunah, (1994) Stokes (2010)

  6. Meditation • Prior experience of the students in relation to R.E. lectures • Meditation to narrow one’s focus and calm one’s mind • Process of the meditation • Stimulus for Meditation after body-work • Music in the meditative process

  7. Stimuli for sessions • Native American Odyssey CD – Putaymo International Music Collection • Crimmen’s work on the therapeutic use of story in Special Education - Native American Tales The Windmaker The Healing Waters

  8. Nature of the Research • Qualitative • PAR (Participatory Action-Research) • Non-Random, purposive sampling • Ethical Considerations - informed consent - right to privacy • Self-selection of ultimate group

  9. Empirical work • Posters.......

  10. Setting a tranquil scene....

  11. Coffee, Cakes and Kindness

  12. Sequence of Approaches

  13. Feedback from Participants

  14. Informing future planning

  15. Conclusions • Application to the Primary School Classroom – considerations

  16. Informing new courses – Elective in Personal and Professional Development

  17. Cohesion of courses within the B.Ed programme

  18. Very effective fusion of approaches

  19. Bibliography • Boal, A. (1995) The Rainbow of Desire. London: Routledge • Cohen, Louis, Manion, Lawrence and Morrison, Keith (2001)Research Methods in Education – 5th Edition. London: FalmerRoutledge. • Courtney, R. In Jennings, S. (1987) ‘Drama therapy and the Teacher’ in Drama Therapy : Theory and Practice 1. London: Routledge • Crimmens, P. (2006) Drama Therapy and Story-making in Special Education. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers. • Emunah, R. (1994) Acting for Real: Drama Therapy Process, Technique and Performance. New York: Brunner/Mazel • Forrest, R. (2010) Unpublished Doctoral Thesis. • Herr, K. G., (Ed) and Anderson, G.L., (Ed) (2005), The action research dissertation: a guide for students and faculty. Sage: Thousand Oaks, California. (p.54) • Jennings, S. (1998) 3rd ed. Introduction to Drama Therapy: Theatre and Healing: Ariadne’s Ball of Thread. London: Jessica Kingsley Publications • Jones, P. (1996) Drama as Therapy: Theatre as living. London: Routledge • Kemmis,S., and McTaggart, R., (Eds), (1988) 3rd ed. The Action Research Reader. Deakin University Press: Victoria. • Mearns D. & Thorne, B. (2007) 3rd ed. Person-Centred Counselling in Action. London: Sage • Milne, A. (2007) Teach Yourself Counselling. U.S: Mc Graw-Hill • Petty, G. (1998) Teaching Today. Cheltenham: Stanley Thorne Publishers • Schön, D. (1983), The Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals think in action, Temple Smith: London. • Seymour-Rolls, K., and Hughes, I., (1995), Participatory Action research: getting the job done , University of Sydney: Sydney.

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