Author(s): Renáta MAROSI

Title: MARY POPPINS: THE SUBVERSIVE EDUCATOR OF HER AGE

Source: A. Csehiová, A. Tóth-Bakos, I. Szőköl, T. Strédl, M. Nagy. (eds.): 13th International Conference of J. Selye University. Pedagogical Sections. Conference Proceedings

ISBN: 978-80-8122-409-6

DOI: https://doi.org/10.36007/4096.2022.53

Publisher: J. Selye University, Komárno, Slovakia

PY, pages: 2021, 53-64

Published on-line: 2022

Language: hu

Abstract: Mary Poppins has become popular because of her exceptional personality and extraordinary teaching methods. P. L. Travers’s Victorian governess can be decoded as a rebellious female educator, who subverts the traditional teaching methods of her age. Since the twentieth century, drama pedagogy has been making similar efforts to popularize a student-centred education, and to ensure a connection be-tween art and education in order to improve the latter’s quality and to facilitate learning success among students as far acting, dancing and singing in the classroom are concerned. In this sense, Mary Poppins with her educational approach prefigures not only a twenty-first century teacher of drama pedagogy but also a successful positive psychologist and educator of experience pedagogy. The aim of the work is to examine Mary Poppins’s teaching methods from the perspective of these scientific fields and connections between art and education.

Keywords: Mary Poppins, education, drama pedagogy, experience pedagogy, positive psychology, art, subver-sion.

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