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Supporting Life Orientation with Supplementary Self-efficacy Education:

Supporting Life Orientation with Supplementary Self-efficacy Education: The arepp:Theatre for Life Approach Authors: Brigid Schutz and Gordon Bilbrough. Edutainment Theatre N.G.O Established in 1987. Travels to schools nation-wide Uses dramatic theatre presentations

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Supporting Life Orientation with Supplementary Self-efficacy Education:

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  1. Supporting Life Orientation with Supplementary Self-efficacy Education: The arepp:Theatre for Life Approach Authors: Brigid Schutz and Gordon Bilbrough

  2. Edutainment Theatre N.G.O Established in 1987 Travels to schools nation-wide Uses dramatic theatre presentations To provide interactive, social life-skills education To school going youth Enabling informed choice and developing resilience arepp:Theatre for Life

  3. The Presentations Presented in real-life context 1) Performance of a Play • Age group specific • Language specific • Fosters identification and emotional recognition 2) Facilitated Peer Discussion • Encourages debate • Allows for cognitive personalisation, internalisation and contextualisation 3) Report Back to School and Follow up • Mark for Life Orientation Lesson (planned for 2007) • List of questions, concerns and issues discussed by learners • Recommendations for follow-up and support • Contacts for local support organisations and services • Provision of follow-up lesson plan

  4. The Content • Addresses Sexuality Education • Knowledge • Skills • Attitudes • Values • Develops • Self-concept • Self-image • Self-esteem • Encourages • Choice making • Responsibility • Tolerance • Adaptability

  5. Identity Rights Relationships Discrimination Gender Homosexuality Pregnancy Peer-pressure Sex Substance Use HIV/AIDS and STI’s Violence Physical and Emotional Abuse The IssuesUsing a rights-based approach Examines: Compliments the Life-skills Curriculum

  6. Objectives • Encouragement of positive self-concept • Enforcement of self-esteem and self-value • Provision of relevant information • Development of decision-making life-skills and self-efficacy

  7. Outcomes the learners will be enabled to • make sound, informed lifestyle choices about what is best for them, and their community, in their particular contexts; • accept and take responsibility for those decisions; • be flexible and robust in responding to the consequences, both foreseen and unforeseen. They are resilient and enabled with informed choice for sustainable decision-making.

  8. Projects • Primary Schools • “No Monkey Business” • grades 1-4 • “About Us” • grades 4-7 • Secondary Schools and FET Colleges • “Look Before You Leap” • grades 8-9 • grades 10-12/ ages 16 -25

  9. Evaluations • Continuously researched and evaluated • 2005 evaluation showed that the arepp:Theatre for Life approach “encourages openness, plain speaking and debate” (Nell and Shapiro “Beyond Gut Feeling” 2005) amongst those with whom it works. • It showed positive improvement in areas such as: • understanding about gender equality, • views on relationships, • choice-making skills, • tolerance around making mistakes, • and self-esteem, • “which in turn adds up to increased self-efficacy”.

  10. Enhancing Future Impact Plans to Enhance future impact by : • Working more formally within the Life orientation curriculum. • Attempting to embed the work in a broader school context. • Greater buy-in from educators and principals. • Finding ways to support educators further in their work. • Developing more user-friendly support materials.

  11. “The beauty is that thelearners learn important lessons without even realising it. The actors engaged with themthroughout!” (Mr Mzamo: Khuthala Primary) • “what matters is that I know who I am on the inside” (Anonymous Learner: Nkumbulo Secondary)

  12. CONTACT DETAILS Tel: (011) 485-4771 (021) 447-8551 Fax: (011) 640-3861 jhbadmin@arepp.org.za capeadmin@arepp.org.za www.arepp.org.za

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