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"Freeze!" - Use of Dramatic and Improvisational Techniques in Fostering Philosophical Dialogue with Children, Youth and Adults

The activity named "Freeze!" is a particular form of improvised skit concerning a conflict situation on a specific theme and leading to a decisive moment or climax where the individual or individuals are required to address the conflict in some manner - moral or otherwise. A potential conflict situation is described, individual groups improvise the outcome, interrupting the action at the critical moment to allow participants in the audience to examine their own expectations and assumptions and to project these onto the action as possible solutions. The element of surprise which follows, when the "actors" fulfill or disappoint our expectations in varying measure, highlights those elements contributing to conflict and its resolution. In the subsequent discussion, participants propose elements of the theme which seem important to the action, conflict, resolution or lack of it. These elements or concepts are "collected" or gathered, like concepts ordered to like, differentiated from other distinguishing characteristics, lines of reasoning. Participants write down and structure in the form of a mind-map concepts which occur to them regarding characters, situations, behavioural choices, and the principles which guide those choices, and group or order the individual elements or concepts according to any lines of reasoning that emerge/become apparent in the course of the conversation. The activity can close in a variety of ways. The children can be allowed to "re-enact" their situation again according to their new insights and ideas. In other cases, children like to "re-invest" their conclusions in a new work, often some form of visual art.

philosophical dialogue; philosophizing with children; improvisation; action; conflict; moral dilemma; enactment; resolution; reenactment; assumptions; expectations; decision; choice; principles; reflection; dialogue; concepts; lines of reasoning

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