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František Zborník

A graduate of the Pedagogical Faculty in České Budějovice where he majored in Czech and German language and literature, František Zborník also pursued special studies of drama education at the Theater Faculty of the Prague Academy of Performing Arts. He began his career as a secondary school teacher in Vodňany; in 1986 he became a lecturer at the Pedagogical Faculty of the South Bohemian University, first at the Languages Department, later at the Department of Czech Language and Literature. He specialized in didactics of literature, in particular in using the principles of drama and theatre techniques in teaching (drama education). In 1999 he was invited to lecture at the Departments of Pedagogics and of Primary Pedagogics of the Pedagogical Faculty of Charles University in Prague. In 2002 he became director of the National Information and Consultancy Center for Culture (NIPOS). In 2008 he was appointed director of the Department of the Arts and Libraries of the Ministry of Culture. From 1990 to 1994 he was mayor of the town of Vodňany. Throughout his life, František Zborník has been involved with the theater on a non-professional as well as professional basis. With professional theatre he collaborates mainly as an author of theatre plays and adaptations of literary works and as a director. Apart from his theatrical activities, he has written books for children and radio plays and done some other scripts and directing. He has published many articles on drama education in expert periodicals.

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