Drama: Learning Connections in Primary Schools (2nd Edition)

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Drama: Learning Connections in Primary Schools is a comprehensive resource, designed to help students learn how to teach drama and successfully integrate it with other areas of the curriculum. Enhanced with rich pedagogy, this book combines a solid coverage of theory with practical strategies for using drama as a learning tool. The book also contains a wealth of activities that pre-service teachers can take into the classroom and use with confidence.

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Contents:

Section 1: Drama in Learning Contexts

Part 1: Introducing Drama: Parameters and Possibilities

1: Describing Drama

2: The Drama Mentor Prepares

Part 2: Maximising Learning: Drama In The Curriculum

3: Systematic Planning for Drama

4: Integrated Learning through Drama

5: Social Learning through Drama

Section 2: Drama Blocks for Learning

Part 3: Realising Drama: Developing the Senses

6: Sense of Self

7: Sense of Others

8: Sense of Drama

Part 4: Activating Alternatives: Shaping Drama Experiences

9: Improvising, Role Playing and Playbuilding

10: Story Making, Telling and Dramatising

11: Puppet Making, Operating and Presenting

Part 5: Appreciating Drama: Performance Perspectives

12: Readers' Theatre: Scripting and Staging

13: Children's Theatre: Playwriting, Directing and Performing

14: Theatrical Traditions: Appreciating and Responding

Section 3: Drama Connections with Technology

Part 6: Extending Drama: Uses of Technology

15: Emerging Technologies: Implications for Drama Education