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The Topic at the Summer Courses of the University of the Basque Country

On the 4th of July it is scheduled the course titled “Puppet Theatre: an educational resource”

The heads of the Tolosa Puppet International Center, Idoya Otegui and Miguel Arreche, conduct the course “Puppet Theatre: and educational resource”, that is included as part of the XXX Summer Courses of the University of the Basque Country.

The aim of this workshop, that will take place at the Topic on the 4th of July, is to demonstrate that the puppet theatre is an educational resource with a significant potential to motivate, to reinforce and to strengthen the traineeship of the student in all the areas of the curriculum starting from preschool up to secondary school.


They will also deal with the opportunities that the puppet facilitates in order to strengthen the oral and non-oral communication, as well as to reinforce the critical thinking and the capacity for problem-solving within a non-threatening environment that encourages the personal expression of each child and their creativity, reinforcing at the same time the cooperation and team work. Another objective of this course is to see discovering how the educational puppet is a unique tool to fill the needs of shy children and/or to profit with different learning techniques, including those that cannot be learned within a typical educational framework.

There will be taught three lectures. The first one is titled “The puppets within education in the Basque Country”, by Encarni Genua, Philosophy and Letters Graduate and also the founder of the puppet company Txotxongillo. The “Introduction” part of this lecture will be conducted by Carol Sterling, Arts in Education Director, Brooklyn Arts Council, New York. She will give an end to the workshop with a talk named “Activity – break the ice”.

Complete information for the course.