Drama in education as a tool of understanding the culture of deaf persons

The theme of this dissertation is drama education in deaf persons teaching. The dissertation is based on the attitude, that deaf people are the culture and language minority. The connection between drama and multicultural education could be the right possibility for their drama teaching. The aim of the dissertation is to formulate the form of the multicultural education focuses on this problem and to propound what we are going to do in drama lessons. In the opening section there are adumbrate two different positions which have accompanied by all historical events and have reflected methods of deaf handicapped children's education. Then it focuses on definitions of deaf people's culture and its aspects. With respect to a special situation of deaf handicapped children and their culture identity, the dissertation tries to find aims and ways out of the multicultural education. Below the two mainstreams of the multicultural education are named and put in the concrete terms in the variant projects. There are founded the benefits from the connection between the multicultural and drama education. The ideas for the work with deaf handicapped children are based on the four source spheres of the deaf people culture. In the last section are selections from the lessons which are based on the express premises