ERIC Number: EJ1320515
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2021-Dec
Pages: 14
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ISSN: ISSN-1463-9491
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Blurring the Play-Drama Boundary: A Case Study Investigating the Teaching and Learning of a Drama-Integrated Curriculum in a Hong Kong Kindergarten
Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, v22 n4 p328-341 Dec 2021
This study aims to conceptualise a drama-integrated curriculum devised from process drama as an approach to play-based pedagogy and curriculum to realise the policy initiative of learning through play. By investigating teachers' perspectives and practices in relation to the curriculum of a local kindergarten, examples of effective drama-integration strategies and the associated children's learning are identified and organised into four themes -- namely, drama teaching and learning through, before, in and after play. The teachers understood that although their curriculum is not based on free play, its not-so-free features may reconcile the play-learning binarism, daring them to navigate the maze of complex relationships between play, drama, teaching and learning in implementing a playful curriculum.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Drama, Teaching Methods, Play, Kindergarten, Preschool Teachers, Curriculum, Public Schools, Teacher Attitudes, Interpersonal Competence, Imagination, Problem Solving, Program Effectiveness
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Early Childhood Education; Elementary Education; Kindergarten; Primary Education; Preschool Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Hong Kong
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