An Evaluation of the Use of Online Technologies in Acting Courses after the Pandemic

Abstract

As we progress toward a release from the global pandemic conditions and a normalization process, this study aims to mount arguments about the possibility of benefiting from an online learning model for training actors aside from extraordinary conditions and to engender headlines and data that present the requirement of more advanced academic discussions in this situation. As will be seen, the main obstacle to the opportunities online education provides for acting training, which leads to flexible time, independence from space and instructor-student physical togetherness, autodidactic learning with the distortion of the instructor’s hegemonic function in learning processes, is the tendency to take refuge in solid and preconceived ideas about the matter. It is of great significance to bring up for discussion the perception that pins acting training to theatre education, explains theatre only via its performance, and, accordingly, regards online technologies as functionless and degenerative. There is need to revise these mainstream notions.

Keywords

• Online Acting Training
• Acting
• Autodidacticism
• Mirror Neurons
• Screen Acting

Pandemi Sonrası Oyunculuk Eğitiminde Online Teknolojilerin Kullanımı Üzerine Bir Değerlendirme

Abstract

Bu çalışma küresel pandemi koşullarından çıkıp normalleşme sürecine geçtiğimiz bugünlerde, olağanüstü koşulların dışında da oyunculuk eğitiminde online ders içeriklerinden faydalanabileceğine dair argümanlar oluşturmayı, konuyla ilişkili yapılacak daha gelişkin akademik tartışmaların gerekliliğini ortaya koyan veriler ve başlıklar oluşturmayı hedeflemektedir. Görüleceği üzere oyunculuk eğitiminde online eğitimin sunduğu, esnek zamanlı, mekana ve öğretmen-öğrencinin fiziksel birlikteliğine bağımlı olmayan, öğretmenin öğrenme süreçlerindeki hegemonik işlevini kırıp otodidaktik öğrenmeye yol açan olanakların önündeki en büyük engel, konuyla ilişkili katı ve kalıplaşmış düşüncelere sığınma eğilimidir. Oyunculuk eğitimini tiyatro eğitimine sabitleyen, tiyatroyu da yalnızca onun performatifliğiyle açıklayan ve bu doğrultuda online teknolojileri işlevsiz ve yozlaştırıcı olarak gören algının tartışmaya açılması, genel geçer düşüncelerin yeniden gözden geçirilmesi kritik derecede önem arz etmektedir.

Keywords

• Online oyunculuk eğitimi
• Oyunculuk
• Otodidaktizm
• Ayna nöronlar
• Ekran oyunculuğu

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