Creative Drama Study about Intangible Cultural Heritage: Turkish Wedding Traditions

Elvan  Yalçınkaya

doi:10.4236/ce.2015.61002

Elvan Yalçınkaya

Abstract: Education has an important role in protecting the intangible cultural heritage, which is an important part of cultural identity, and transferring it to the next generations. In the Protecting Intangible Cultural Heritage Agreement that is accepted by United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), it is indicated that it is necessary to arrange educational, sensibility increasing and informative programs that target the general of the society and especially the youth. In line with this target, there are some creative drama practices based on teaching with games about intangible cultural heritage with reference to wedding example. The themes of the creative drama practices have been designed before by the researcher and the drama workshop has been performed by primary school teacher candidates. In the essay, the practice example has been represented in a detailed way; the essay includes the studies of the teacher candidates and their opinions during and after the practices have been indicated in the essay. As a result of the study, it is put forth that the young are interested in wedding traditions. The teacher candidates think that intangible wedding traditions have to be kept alive and creative drama can be used as an effective way in the education of the intangible cultural education. In the frame of the results, it is planned to evaluate the practice results of creative drama activities about the heritage fields told in the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, which are: “oral traditions and expressions, performance arts, other social practices, rituals and feasts, practices and information about nature and universe, handicrafts tradition”.

Keywords: Creative Education, Creative Drama, Heritage, Intangible Cultural Heritage

Cite this paper: Yalçınkaya, E. (2015) Creative Drama Study about Intangible Cultural Heritage: Turkish Wedding Traditions. Creative Education, 6, 22-31. doi: 10.4236/ce.2015.61002.

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