The Role of Children’s Theater in Building Societal Values for Children

Conference on Cultural Diversity, the Basis of National Integration, College of Arts/Wasit University 2022

Abstract

There are many visions and ideas about the process of using educational community value structures and their impact on the child in the theater in general, and in particular in the child’s theater, where the topics can be embodied and formulated with high professionalism to reach connotations and meanings with intellectual values ​​bearing an educational-educational-educational character as it is possible to address the child’s mind And his imagination through the visual formation to build the units of the event or the subject, as the units of the formation of the child’s theater of scenery, decoration, language and music have its effect in creating excitement for the process of communication between the child and the presentation and has its impact, therefore, on the assimilation of that value, and this exciting has its goal in achieving the visual vision in tension and attention And the excitement of the contents of the theatrical performance presented to children.

The research was devoted to a study of the impact of children's theater on consolidating societal values ​​in children's theater. The research included four chapters. The first chapter dealt with the research problem, which was determined by the following question: (Does the child's theater achieve its goal in establishing educational values ​​for children?).

The importance of the current research is summed up in a set of points: It benefits playwrights who are interested in children's theater and contributes to the success of their mission and their dramatic and artistic experience in writing an educational theatrical text.

As for the second chapter, it was devoted to the theoretical framework of research and previous studies in it, as it included two chapters. The first topic dealt with the educational and artistic community values, while the second topic dealt with the child’s theater, and the chapter concluded with the most important indicators that resulted from the theoretical framework, and the previous studies were presented and discussed.

In the third chapter, the researcher determined the research methodology and procedures and identified the research community, which included one theatrical performance, in the form of CDs, and this episodic: the play (The Bird and the Fox): written by Nateq Kholousi, directed by Abbas Al-Khafaji.

Based on the conclusions reached by the researcher recommends the following:

1. Increasing government interest and support for children's theater and increasing financial allocations for children's theater and its productions in the cinema and theater department.
2. Raising the technical level of children's plays presented at the level of writing, directing and theatrical techniques.

Thus, the researcher suggests the following: Conducting a study of the combined educational and artistic values ​​in children's theater performances.

This chapter also includes a list of Arabic sources and references.

Keywords: children's theater, societal values.