Author(s): Ozan SELCIK Ayegül OGUZ
Higher education institutions, which play crucial roles in individual and social development; in providing highly skilled human resource for prosperity, economic growth and various employment fields of Europe, assume leadership role in realizing the Europe 2020 Strategy. In this regard, as of 1987, European Commission provides university students with funding opportunities to study and train in European countries through Erasmus Student Mobility Programmes, which has also been available for Turkey since 2004. International Relations Offices of the universities organize orientation programmes for Erasmus students to meet each other, to communicate, to share information related to the countries where they are going to study and train. In this respect, the International Relations Office of Recep Tayyip Erdogan University prepared and applied an orientation programme through creative drama methods to the students who have been selected as Erasmus students under Erasmus Student Mobility for Studies or Training in the academic year 2014-2015, data acquired in line with students’ products and their comments during and after the programme are construed through content and descriptive analysis. To evaluate the results, creative drama methods are one of the effective methods in orientation programme. Application of creative drama methods is highly recommended method in orientation programmes
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