Creative learning is an acquisition of knowledge and skills through active participation.
It is a combined procedure of a creative exchange between the individual and his natural or social environment.
Learning is a complicated human function which has roots both in the psychological, and the physiological part of man. It is the outcome of internal as well as external operations, aiming at acquiring knowledge and skills. The process of Learning becomes more interesting and compound once it moves out of the state of memorizing , to a state where fundamental human functions are involved.
Learning can be called creative if it stirs up imagination, memory, sensitiveness and the sentiment, mimesis, [following the Aristotelian idea], play, art and creation and also, learning, is creative, when it gains experience from the above.
CLEAR aims at deciphering the connections between the above functions for the sake of the educational process .It aims at introducing a contemporary both in theory and in practice teaching method, which differing from the existing, will provide new lively elements to the teacher pupil relation.
This teacher-pupil relation has been undergoing many changes, and methods. It has taken up the theatrical game, the game of roles [role playing, or participation theater], or it has used story telling. However what, the target is always one; the conquering and evolution of man’s knowledge of himself, of his environment and the laws that govern it. Drama in education, theater in education, development drama. These we could call the ancestors and the foundations of the method that Clear wishes to cover, formulate , and take hold of.
Mimesis is a term with an undeniably classical pedigree. Originally a Greek word, it has been used in aesthetic or artistic theory to refer to the attempt to imitate or reproduce reality since Plato and Aristotle. “Mimesis” is derived from the Greek verb mimeisthai, which means “to imitate” and which itself comes from mimos, meaning “mime.”
Imitation is natural to humans from childhood.
Imitation is how children learn, and we all learn from imitations.
Tragedy can be a form of education that provides moral insight and fosters emotional growth.
Tragedy is the imitation (mimesis) of certain kinds of people and actions.
Good tragedies must have certain sorts of people and plots.
A successful tragedy produces a katharsis in the audience.
Katharsis = purification through pity and fear.