Advantages and consecvences of using puppet in drama education of mentaly disabled people

Objective of this thesis is to get closer and clarify advantages of drama educational influence by working with mental disabled people. It refers to the advantages of working with puppet within educational process and it shows possibilities in progress of single character elements of people with mental disablement. Thesis is divided into three parts. First part is focused to theory of drama-education and dramatherapy. First part thinks also of historical context of origin of alternative pedagogical trends and describes the influence of drama education on single character elements. Second part dedicates deeply to benefits of puppet in connection with general personal character progress. Third one, practical part, describes drama-educational lessons and theatre project named "Where the stars fall". The benefit of both styles by working on progress of single character elements of mental disabled people, is pointed at the close