Lecture notes: Creative Learning through Arts - Drama
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Course
Creative learning through the arts (ED1BCL)
Institution
University Of Reading (UoR)
Book
Drama-based Pedagogy
What is drama based pedagogy. What are the similarities and differences of theatre and drama. What is creativity, creative thinking. What is drama. What is etymology. What is theatre. What is drama in education. Who is Neelands, what did they find. Why should drama be child-centred. Why is play imp...
ED1BCL – Creative learning through arts. Week 3.
DRAMA. TUES 25/01/2022
PRE SESSION NOTES:
Dawson, K., & Lee, B.K. (2018). Drama-Based Pedagogy: Activating Learning Across the
Curriculum. Short Run Press.
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/reading/reader.action?
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Chapter 2: what is drama based pedagogy?
PP 17-27
o Drama-based pedagogy strategies = brings body & mind together through
drama/theatre.
o Ensemble, imagination, embodiment, narrative story.
o MICHAEL ROHD 2002 = ensemble = group of ppl that work together regularly.
o LEE, ENCISO, & AUSTIN THEATRE ALLIANCE, 2017 = imagination = kids making sense
of what is in front of them.
o Embodiment = demonstrate real or imagined viewpoints through their body.
In drama = show what is known about concepts/ideas, represented better through
physical representation.
o Narrative story = in drama educator uses story/narrative to structure imaginative
act.
Through drama-based pedagogy, students & teachers have opportunity to
embody/explore/investigate/rewrite narratives through imagination.
o Consciousness = 2 dimensions – intellect (mind) & affect (emotions).
o Intellect = rational, logical, academic curriculum in classroom.
o Affective learning = hidden curriculum.
PP SLIDESHOW:
SLIDE 1: DRAMA V THEATRE
Similarities:
- Both use performance?
- Both use group work - collaboration
- Both express imagination?
- Central person
Differences:
- Clothes
- Lighting (focused lighting)
- Props
- Age
- Set/surroundings
SLIDE 2: DEFINITIONS
o Creativity = imagine, conceive, express, make something that wasn’t there before
o Creative thinking = knowledge, intuition & skills applied to imagine/express in its
contexts.
Present in all areas of life.
Can be spontaneous BUT also can be underpinned by critical thinking &
collaboration.
, ED1BCL – Creative learning through arts. Week 3.
DRAMA. TUES 25/01/2022
Teaching for creativity = using pedagogies & practices that cultivate creativity in
young ppl.
SLIDE 3: DRAMA
o Drama = symbolic lang where we represent the real world.
o Used in rituals to influence real world
o Many forms & languages of drama:
Masks
Music theatre
Highly stylised forms
Naturalistic life like forms
Puppets
Mime
Film
Drama in schools
SLIDE 16: ETYMOLOGY
o Drama =
Greek drama: action, deed: play, spectacle
Drāo: to do, make, act, perform
o Theatre =
Greek theatron: place for viewing
Theasthai: to behold
SLIDE 17: THEATRE
o BECKERMAN, 1979 = 1 or more humans isolated in time & space, present themselves
in imagined acts to others
o LOPE DE VEGA cited in BOAL, 1995 = theatre is 2 humans, a passion & a platform
o AUGUSTO BOAL, 1992 = theatre is art of looking at ourselves
theatre = stories
theatre’s roots = oral storytelling
o PETER BROOK = study animals go to zoo, study ppl go to theatre
o Memories only exist when we recreate them.
o They change & shift every time we think about them.
o They’re a story
SLIDE 19: DRAMA IN EDUCATION
o LAMBERT & O’NEIL = drama in ed is mode of learning… pupils can learn to explore
issues, events & relationships.
o WOOLLAND = drama is social are form…how ppl relate to world they live in & how
they interact with each other & society in wider sense.
o DOROTHY HEATHCOTE cited in Wagner, 1976 = difference between theatre &
classroom drama = in theatre everything is contrived so audience gets the kicks. In
classroom = participants get the kicks. BUT roots are same.
SLIDE 21: JONOTHAN NEELANDS
o Drama should be child-centred.
- what child already knows & introduces new through teacher intervention.
o Isn’t concerned with transmission of theatre-skills.
- Child experiencing rather than performing
o Practical, immediate & engages emotions & intellect.
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