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Teruel, Tomás Motos; Alfonso-Benlliure, Vicente; Fields, Donna Lee – Research in Drama Education, 2019
This study examines how young adults experience theatre and how this activity impacts their personal development. A total of 305 subjects, between 14 and 29 years old, completed the 'Theatre and me' (T&Y) battery of questions. Correlation and variance analysis were conducted considering age and gender. Older subjects reported that…
Descriptors: Theater Arts, Young Adults, Foreign Countries, Individual Development
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Brittany Morgan Brewer – English Journal, 2016
This article explores how choral reading can be used as a drama tool in a classroom setting to engage students with nonfiction rhetoric while adhering to the Common Core State Standards.
Descriptors: Grade 10, Rhetoric, Nonfiction, Theater Arts
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Simon, Nicole S.; Grosso, Andrew – Penn GSE Perspectives on Urban Education, 2009
Over the last five years, the Urban Assembly School for Law and Justice (SLJ), a new, small public high school in Brooklyn, and The Essentials, a professional theater company, have joined forces to offer a low-budget, high-quality, in-house afterschool theater program for SLJ students. Both SLJ and The Essentials were in nascent stages when the…
Descriptors: Models, Partnerships in Education, After School Programs, Theater Arts
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Larson, Reed W.; Brown, Jane R. – Child Development, 2007
Grounded-theory analyses were used to formulate propositions regarding the processes of adolescent emotional development. Progress in understanding this difficult topic requires close examination of emotional experience in context, and to do this the authors drew on qualitative data collected over the course of a high school theater production.…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Emotional Experience, Emotional Development, Theater Arts
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Urice, John K. – Arts Education Policy Review, 2004
High school theatre productions can have broad beneficial effects. In addition to helping students, they can bring a sense of unity and focus to a school in ways most often associated with higher-profile athletics. The community in which the school resides often benefits from the entertainment and the visible expression of student achievement.…
Descriptors: High Schools, Drama, Dramatics, High School Students
Virginia Department of Education, 2006
The Theatre Arts Standards of Learning identify the essential content and skills required in the theatre arts curriculum for the middle school and core high school courses in Virginia's public schools. The standards are designed to be cumulative and progress in complexity by course from the middle school through the secondary level. Throughout…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Theater Arts, Course Content, Methods
Ward, Winifred – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1960
Creative drama, as a language art, has been a part of the elementary school curriculum for a number of years. Community organizations also have long been concerned with offering children rewarding experiences in creative dramatics, and many have pioneered in the establishment of children's theaters. Because of the relatively small percentage of…
Descriptors: Drama, Dramatics, Theater Arts, Elementary Schools