Show Notes
ACS Athens' languages, humanities, and theater curriculum regularly return to teaching and learning paradigms through which students are empowered and inspired to gain knowledge of the world and of themselves. One of those paradigms is the latest performance of Oedipus in our Theater, which was followed by numerous Socratic seminars in many classrooms. The entire school became a stage for conversation and debate, facilitating the ideal Project Based Learning through Inquiry, Research, and Performance.
Today we’re talking with Ms. Sophia Thanopoulou, Drama Faculty of our Academy, and Dr. Evangelos Syropoulos, English Language Faculty in the Academy and Division Chair of Language and Literature of ACS Athens.
With Dr. Syropoulos and Ms. Thanopoulou today, we discuss:
- Oedipus and AI: exploring the limits and dangers of knowledge;
- Theater and the civic experience in the context of the community of the time;
- Revisiting the Ancient Greek way of thinking as a shield against modern existential threats;
- The impact on the students of having to co-create an Ancient Greek theater production;
- Conscious Citizenship through theater;
- The difference between trans-humanism and post-humanism;
- The Socratic seminar way of creating knowledge through free and open discussion.
