Asst. Prof. İHSAN METİNNAM

Biography

He graduated from Elementary Education Department of Ege University Education Faculty in 2008. He completed his graduate education in the creative drama master's program at Ankara University Institute of Educational Sciences in 2011 and from the fine arts education doctorate program at Ankara University Institute of Educational Sciences in 2017. His fields of study are the relationship between social justice and drama in education, establishing cultural contact zones through drama in education, history of drama in education (pioneers, approaches, traditions, etc.) and methodology in drama research. He has directed drama classes at undergraduate (such as classroom teaching, preschool teaching) and graduate level. He has taken part in many national and international drama congresses, seminars and festivals as a participant or trainer. He served on the boards of the Çağdaş Drama Derneği (Contemporary Drama Association) and IDEA (International Drama/Theater Education Association), which are active in the field of drama in education, and worked as a workshop instructor at the European Drama Encounters (EDERED) held in Switzerland in 2015. Between January and March 2020, he conducted research and studies in his field in Hannover, Germany, as the guest of the German Play and Theater Association (BAG Spiel und Theater) and Hannover University. He still works as a faculty member at Ankara University, Faculty of Fine Arts.