24/03/2016 Thursday
Professor Sandra Snavely, who teaches Psychology at St Philip’s College, has enjoyed learning how useful puppets have been as a tool in her teaching. Today was the second time Yvonne had used puppets in Sandra’s Social Psychology class. This time it was being filmed by Patrick to provide a video resource dealing with the puppet methodology and to accompany the eighteen puppets that Yvonne will leave behind at the College. The class had previously been introduced to puppets and asked to produce scenarios relating to adolescence and relationships to significant adults. Issues included: conflict around the use of a family car, body image, sexual activity and curfews, teen pregnancy, teen suicide, moving out of the family home, bullying, single parent and loss and time available with a parent in the military. Working in twos they produced little plays which were recorded on film. The class concluded with a discussion about how the use of puppets helped in understanding the issues and in particular the associated feelings and emotions.
