The educational practices and workshops carried out by the Fairy Tale Castle were shown as good examples in education by different institutions that are competent in their fields, and presentations were made to the educators at conferences and workshops.
“Unbroken Dreams”, a children's rights-based story book nourished by creative drama and creative writing, has emerged as the output of a long-term and interdisciplinary practice with 15 children under the leadership of Author Dr. Nilay YILMAZ. The aim is to develop critical and creative thinking skills and to create social awareness in the context of children's rights. The study, which was selected as a good example in education by the Sabancı University Education Reform Initiative (ERG), was presented at the 13th Best Practices in Education Conference held on April 2, 2016.
The educational activity book of the story Unbreakable Dreams, prepared by the author Dr. Nilay YILMAZ, "If You Don't Play, I Will be hurt", on the other hand, has been the source of many activities and classroom practices that serve reading comprehension and practice gains.
Fairy Tale Castle also took part as a speaker in the conversation on "Education-Culture-Art Based on the Child's Right to Participate" at the 1st International Cappadocia Children's Book Festival held between April 15-19, 2019, and the "If You Don't Play, I Will be hurt’’ Workshop. provided the opportunity to meet with the children in Nevşehir.
At the 16th Good Practices in Education Conference Local Workshop held in Eskişehir on May 4, 2019, “Unbroken Dreams” was presented to the educators in Eskişehir, this time as a good example from the local.
STEAM applications have also been added to the workshops based on this book.
STEAM education enables children to have creative thinking, problem solving and imagination skills. Through the story, science, mathematics and design are removed from abstract, boring and paper-based concepts, and carried to the dimension of life.
STEAM provides fun and unlimited exploration opportunities for children to solve the problems in fairy tales and stories with their own creativity and solutions, as well as to raise awareness of social awareness and children's rights.
In line with the problem they encounter in the story, children reach a conclusion with their own efforts at every step from beginning to end.
Thus, an interactive, educational and interdisciplinary story reading activity is carried out.
"If you don't play, I will be hurt (Rights and Interdisciplinary Education with STEAM)" workshop which was prepared in this regard was selected as a good example in education by Yıldız Technical University and was presented to educators at the National Storytelling Congress (UHAK) held on October 11-12, 2019.