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Using Process Drama Techniques To Create the World of the Play.
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McCammon, Laura A. – Stage of the Art, 2003
Contends that process drama techniques can be beneficial for novice actors rehearsing a play set in a world vastly different from their own. Notes that the techniques can be designed as part of the rehearsal process. Provides examples of using process drama in this way, and notes that these activities are very structured, much as a play is…
Descriptors: Drama, Educational Objectives, Role Playing, Secondary Education
Process Drama Explorations to Support "Macbeth."
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Anderson, Jared; Barrera, Gregory; Benedict, Julie; Cavanaugh, Michael; Christensen, Jessica; Clark, Susannah; Dallimore, Natalie; Drown, Danielle; Fink, Susan; Hansen, Josh; Haubner, Ashley; Hinsdale, Robin; Johnson, Tyler; King, JuLee; Maufort, Brenda; Neubauer, Laura; Popple, Jennifer; Praggastis, Cate; Price, Matt; Raber, Lloyd; Rowland, Tiffany; Strite-Hatch, Amy; Torson, Christine; Tuckness, Tara – Stage of the Art, 2003
Explains that each year, theatre education majors at the University of Utah select a production that will be mounted by a professional theatre company on the campus. Explains that the theatre education majors complete extensive dramaturgical research for the production, and create a process drama pre-show piece that is presented to over 1500 K-12…
Descriptors: Creativity, Drama, Elementary Secondary Education, Role Playing
The Unbearable Liteness of Process Drama.
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Rijnbout, Frans – Stage of the Art, 2003
Notes that though process drama is a touchstone of educational theatre, those who profess and practice it fail to engage in a critical examination of its efficacy. Contends that one of the reasons process drama does not accomplish what it sets out to do is because its role-play elements can be characterized as simplistic, restricted, stereotypical…
Descriptors: Drama, Educational Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Effectiveness
Pedagogy, Process Drama, and Visual Anthropology.
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Jensen, Amy Petersen; Ashworth, Julia – Stage of the Art, 2003
Notes that media shapes the way young people contextualize their world. Suggests that process drama could be a pedagogical forum where theater practitioners and young people could use dramatic tools to explore the form and content of the omnipresent media in its historical, social, political, and personal contexts. Provides examples of what this…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Drama, Elementary Secondary Education, Mass Media Effects
The Process of Drama through a Novel.
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DeMarsico, Jonnette – Stage of the Art, 2003
Notes that New York University's Steinhardt School of Education offers a program in educational theater with noted practitioners in the field. Provides a narrative description of one process drama session conducted by Warwick Dobson with a group of ninth graders. Explains that this session focused on the novel "The Breadwinner," which is set in…
Descriptors: Cultural Education, Drama, Grade 9, Group Activities
"Meaningful Interactions" with Coleen Koester, a Classroom Teacher.
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Garcia, Lorenzo – Stage of the Art, 1995
Describes several exercises in an elementary classroom led by Koester--a game in which differences are special, and one that simulates community living. Notes that Koester's class is diversified racially, and the exercises in her class are seen by each student as a shared lesson. Concludes with a call for meaningful interactions with and among…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Environment, Creative Dramatics, Elementary Education
Bones, Life, and the Drama Learning Experience: A Narrative of a Successful Process Drama.
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Erickson, Karen L. – Stage of the Art, 2003
Outlines a process drama in which fourth graders play scientists grappling with moral decisions. Describes the students' enthusiasm at acting and following through on their parts. Explains that after the drama, the teacher and students reflect on how it followed or failed to follow dramatic story elements. (PM)
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Drama, Grade 4, Group Activities
Unveiling Serfdom: Mantle of the Expert as a Tool in a Secondary Russian Literature Unit.
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Gray, Esther – Stage of the Art, 2003
Explains a process drama which was constructed to help high school juniors better understand country life in Russia, and to help them empathetically bond with the characters in the short stories they were assigned to read. Describes how this role-playing challenged the false notion held by students that serfdom in Russia was similar to slavery in…
Descriptors: Cultural Education, Drama, Instructional Effectiveness, Role Playing
Teaching-In-Role: Making a Place for Actors as Educators.
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Ludwig, Michelle A. – Stage of the Art, 1997
Examines the current practices and possibilities of using the teaching-in-role strategy (where the teacher takes on a fictional role for educational purposes) through a survey of professional youth theaters. Finds that, of 38 programs that responded, all indicated having an educational program with several characteristics compatible with…
Descriptors: Acting, Classroom Techniques, Drama, Dramatic Play
"Talking Leaves Are Striped": American Indian Cultural and Religious Challenges with Literacy and Why Process Drama Can Bridge the Gap.
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Warner, Christine D. – Stage of the Art, 2003
Discusses studies that indicate that most American Indians have a historical and contemporary aversion to writing and reading. Suggests that the use of process drama in American Indian classrooms can bridge the gap between Western philosophies and education and American Indian religious attitudes and oral traditions. Concludes if educators…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indian Students, Cooperative Learning, Drama