Vedrana Juroš
WHAT IS BEING EVALUATED IN THE DRAMATIC CREATIVITY
OF CHILDREN IN LOWER GRADES OF ELEMENTARY
SCHOOL?
Summary
!e paper deals with the problem of evaluating group stage performances put on
by students in lower grades of elementary school. Pedagogical drama work with
students goes through several filters. !e first of these is the assessment made by
the leader of the drama group, who is primarily focused on pedagogical goals.
However, in addition to the pedagogical goals, aesthetic criteria, with which
the leader must also be satisfied, is imperative. When the leader is satisfied with
the performance, s /he moves it to the following filter: the Committee of the
annual LiDraNo festival, dedicated to literature, drama, and journalism. !e
Committee mainly consists of professionals: artists who evaluate the submitted
works from the perspective of their own art and whose comments are mostly
related to technical aspects. However, drama group leadersʼ dissatisfaction with
LiDraNo mostly arises from their in ability to participate in round table
discussion where they could talk about the LiDraNo criteria and specific
pedagogical goals which teachers – being the only ones who have insight into
the working process as a whole, as well as the individual progress of each child
– adjust to the capabilities of the children in their drama groups. !is paper
therefore proposes a change of the model of communication between the
Committee and the drama group leaders.
Keywords: pedagogical goals, LiDraNo, drama work