Education about the Kosovo Covenant in the function of dramatising poems of the Kosovo cycle: A case study

The paper examines education about the Kosovo Covenant (Kosovski zavet) in the function of dramatising the poems of the Kosovo cycle, using the example of a case study of its application in drama teaching at the Faculty of Education, University of Belgrade, in the academic year 2023/2024. The aim of the research was to determine the contribution of education about the Kosovo Covenant to the dramatisation of the poems of the Kosovo cycle. The research is based on the following assumptions: 1) The Kosovo Covenant represents the ideological and thematic foundation of the poems of the Kosovo cycle, 2) in order to determine the ideological basis of dramatising the poems of the Kosovo cycle, students need education about the Kosovo Covenant. Using the method of content analysis and a survey, we first established that students do not possess extensive knowledge about the Covenant, and then we determined the theoretical basis and content of education about the Kosovo Covenant. Then, by investigating, using survey methods, the content analysis and comparisons, the functionality of the education about the Kosovo Covenant that the students were taught, we determined that it contributed to the fact that the original understanding of the Kosovo Covenant was most represented in student dramatisations (42.54%). Based on this, we conclude that the education on the Kosovo Covenant provided students with the necessary knowledge to determine the ideological basis of the dramatisations and was very functional in the dramatisation of the poems of the Kosovo cycle.