A Life Dedicated to Arts Education!

WAAE webinar , 25 May 2022 19.00 (CEST)

Tintti Karpinnen, Drama teacher, Chair of Honour in FIDEA, Finland
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in dialogue with Sanja Krsmanović Tasić, IDEA president

Tintti Karppinen

FIDEA - Finnish Drama/Theatre Education Association
www.ideadrama.org
 
 
Drama teacher, specialized in socio drama, games and drama for peace education.
Trainer of teachers and other professionals since 1975 in universities and institutes    
Workshops and presentations in over 35 countries.  
FIDEA Chair of Honour, President 1974-84 and still in EC.  
IDEA EC member 1995-98, Vice President 1998-2001, in GMC  2001-07 and AC  2007-13.
IDEA Europe Coordinator since 2006.
UNESCO and WAAE: representative of IDEA in Paris 1998 with InSEA and ISME presidents to start cooperation for Arts in Education. Presenter in congresses and regional seminars around the world to prepare Lisbon 2006 and WAAE.
Awards:

• Grozdanin Kikot 2010 (The International Prize for Contribution to the Development of Drama Education for 2009)
• Life time Achievement Award in the field of Creative Drama in Education 2017
• Lifelong Success Award for Establishing an Approach that Incorporates Creative Drama with Peace Education 2017

DRAMA AS A METHOD OF TEACHING, Paper presented by Tintti Karppinen at the UNESCO Regional Meeting of Experts on Arts Education at school level in Latin America and the Caribbean in Brazil in 2001