Fanney Vala Arnórsdóttir

Performing arts course of the Akureyri High School

Structure and development of performing arts programs at secondary school level

In November 2019, the Akureyri High School (MA) decided to launch an elective course in performing arts in collaboration with Leikfélag Akureyrar (LA) and Menningarfélag Akureyr (MAk) The author of this thesis was hired to formulate, build and teach and direct the course. This thesis is written in order to study the development of the course from the beginning. From its eve, design and formal approval, to the reception of the first students and teaching in all its courses, which spans three years at the secondary school level. In the thesis, the course is reflected in the theories and ideas of national and foreign scholars of pedagogy, examined in connection with the work of others who have built such courses with other secondary schools in the country and compared to the main curriculum of the Secondary School from 2011. It will be examined how the author met on this journey, what went well and what could be done better.

The author is trained in acting and had not received a formal teacher education when work on the course began even though he had been teaching acting for years, both in London and in Akureyri In the final part of the essay, the author will examine his own work in this process in the development and implementation of the performing arts course at M.A. His own development and development through the three and a half years he held the position of project manager and teacher at the course How his experience and previous education, the process itself as well as students and fellow teachers influenced the author.

Supervisor: Vigdís Gunnarsdóttir
30 ECTS MA

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