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Perry, J. Adam – Studies in the Education of Adults, 2021
This article examines how performance-oriented arts practice with members of socially marginalised communities can be harnessed as a mode of grassroots civic participation, one that can transgress the expected norms of public communication that render some stories and speakers legitimate, and some not. The article will offer an analysis of a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Housing, Urban Renewal, Disadvantaged
Altidor-Brooks, Alison; Malec, Alesia; Stagg Peterson, Shelley – Education 3-13, 2020
This study examined children's use of narrative strategies and social purposes in dramatic play through a sociocultural theoretical lens. We analysed language and nonverbal communication in play scenarios involving 17 kindergarteners and their teacher. Children used language and other communication modes to develop plot, character, and setting.…
Descriptors: Young Children, Coaching (Performance), Dramatic Play, Nonverbal Communication
Lee, Kent K.; Abbott, Marilyn L.; Chen, Ning – TESL Canada Journal, 2020
A strong willingness to communicate (WTC) in a second language is associated with successful language learning. ESL learners with high levels of WTC will seek opportunities to interact in meaningful communication in English. Engagement in meaningful communication is necessary for language learning as it increases access to comprehensible input,…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Dramatic Play, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning
Peterson, Shelley Stagg; Greenberg, Janice – Texas Journal of Literacy Education, 2017
A speech-language pathologist and former primary teacher who is now a researcher conducting action research with kindergarten teachers in northern rural Canadian classrooms collaborate in an analysis of one teacher's interactions with her students in a dramatic play center. We use three principles to show how the teacher supports children's…
Descriptors: Dramatic Play, Literacy, Oral Language, Intervention
Gallagher, Kathleen; Wessels, Anne – Research in Drama Education, 2013
In this article, we consider the aesthetic, political and pedagogical strengths of a verbatim theatre performance, "The Middle Place" by Project: Humanity, a play that explores the experiences of shelter youth in Toronto, Canada. This ethnographic study moved from drama classrooms into theatres and charted audience responses to the…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Foreign Countries, Audiences, Dramatics
Doerksen, Rose – McGill Journal of Education, 2016
Through the lens of a student, this Note from the Field responds to a historical research project which engages pre-service teachers in critical citizenship and social imagination. Looking inward facilitates a personal learning experience of identity that is applied to learning in the 21st century. When 21st century pre-service teacher education…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Citizenship Education, Citizenship
Schroeter, Sara – Canadian Journal of Education, 2013
This paper presents data from a study examining the use of Theatre of the Oppressed as a critical pedagogy and research method for exploring notions of identity, belonging, and culture with francophone secondary students (Schroeter, 2009). It describes the process whereby Black African-Canadian students with refugee backgrounds identified their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Critical Theory, Educational Theories, Teaching Methods
Mui, Selina; Anderson, Jim – Reading Teacher, 2008
In this article, we document the literacy practices of Genna Johar and her extended family. Genna, a grade 1 student, is a member of a Indo-Canadian joint family in which her parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins, share a household. Family members including siblings and cousins play important roles in supporting Genna's literacy…
Descriptors: Family (Sociological Unit), Family Literacy, Foreign Countries, Family Characteristics
Layman, Grace – Speech Teacher, 1975
Using dramatics for self actualization. (CH)
Descriptors: Children, Drama, Dramatic Play, Dramatics
Ditchburn, Susan J. – 1985
This paper analyzes a conversational episode from a study of children's play in an educational setting to demonstrate conversational analysis as a research methodology. The analysis reveals the interactional means by which a dramatic play sequence is orchestrated. Children are seen to be sophisticated in their use of talk to create and shape the…
Descriptors: Child Language, Dramatic Play, Foreign Countries, Pragmatics

Ditchburn, Susan J. – International Journal of Early Childhood, 1986
Presents a conversational analysis of children's re-created play episodes drawn from a larger study of children's dramatic play and its re-creation through teacher-led discussions. The analysis provides an empirical framework by which educators may reflect upon the utility and appropriateness of this practice. (Author/MS)
Descriptors: Discussion (Teaching Technique), Dramatic Play, Early Childhood Education, Foreign Countries

Chilcoat, George W.; And Others – History and Social Science Teacher, 1990
Provides a lesson plan on the Great Depression in which students examine the social, economic, and political events of the period through a study of radio broadcasting. Describes an activity in which students research the era and create a radio broadcast. Outlines activity guidelines, radio language, and evaluation methods. (RW)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Drama, Dramatic Play, Economic Factors

Bouchard, Nancy – Journal of Moral Education, 2002
Proposes a narrative approach to moral experience through dramatic play and writing. Argues this approach works with multiple dimensions in student lives and gives them chances to benefit from their moral experiences. Bases this approach to moral education on action research conducted in Quebec (Canada) and Belgium secondary moral education…
Descriptors: Dramatic Play, Educational Change, Ethical Instruction, Foreign Countries
Briggs, Jean L. – 1998
This book examines dramatic interactions between a 3-year-old Inuit girl and the adults in her world. In these playful yet emotionally charged dramas, Inuit adults enact with children the plots that drive Inuit social life; they test, act out problems, entertain themselves, and create children who think and feel like an Inuit. The child, Chubby…
Descriptors: Adult Child Relationship, Canada Natives, Child Development, Child Rearing
Sturgess, Pamela A. – 1986
The study examined exemplary programs in Ontario in the visual and performing arts (arts, crafts, music, movement, drama) for exceptional students at every age level and among every category of exceptionality. Interviews, observations, and questionnaires were used to gather data from 204 teachers. Selected findings include the following: Teaches…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Childrens Art, Demonstration Programs, Disabilities