دراسة مقارنة لصور تمكين ذوي الاحتياجات الخاصة في عينة من مسرحيات الأطفال المصرية و الأمريكية

Abstract EN

This study seeks to compare forms of empowering people with special needs in a sample of Egyptian and American children’s plays.

this is a descriptive study that targets the role of children’s theatre in empowering children with special needs through examining and analyzing a set of American and Egyptian plays.

the study leans on the content analysis method that is appropriate to the nature of the study.

the study population is represented in plays for people with special needs prepared and produced in the Egyptian and American children’s theatre.

the study sample is represented in Arabic and foreign theatrical texts for people with special needs.

the study includes 8 theatrical texts : 4 American and 4 Egyptian theatrical texts for the purpose of comparing them in the forms of empowering people with special needs in children’s theatre.

the content analysis tool (content analysis form) is used as the main tool for analyzing some of the Egyptian and American plays for children with special needs.

the most important results derived from the analysis are as follows : (tragicomedy) theatrical texts ranked first in the following plays (Bent Araby-Nazaret al-Moharej (clown’s glasses)-Ward Wa Yasmin (roses and jasmine)-Hazehe Madrasatona (this is our school)-al-Ashia’ al-Saghira (little things)-Basirat al-Akzam (dwarf’s insight) by 75.0%, followed by "tragic" theatrical texts represented in the plays (al-Qalb al-Abiad (white heart)-al-Hojra al-Okhra (the other room) by 25.0% of the total study sample theatrical texts.

the different types of empowerment of people with special needs tackled by the theatrical texts "sample of the study" were as follows : "psychological empowerment" ranked first by 34.8%, directly followed by "social empowerment" in the second place by 26.4%, then followed thirdly by "legislative empowerment" by 16.9%, while "educational empowerment" ranked fourth by 13.5% and "functional empowerment" of people with special needs ranked fifth by 4.5%, then "health empowerment" ranked sixth by 3.9% of the total types of empowerment found in the theatrical texts.