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Loreain Martinez-lejarreta; Lorna Arnott; Kate Wall – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2024
This article explores the usefulness of detective role-play as a research method to facilitate young children's critical thinking. The study examines four specifically designed detective play experiences, adopting an ethical rights-based approach to research with children. This qualitative multiple-case study is grounded in play-based pedagogy…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Critical Thinking, Active Learning
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Kurt, Cemile; Karabag, S. Gülin – African Educational Research Journal, 2021
This research aimed to present how using the drama method in high school history courses affected student achievement. The descriptive study utilized data collected with quasi-experimental design in quantitative method and made use of data based on content analysis in qualitative method. The study group of the research consisted of 59 students in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Teaching Methods, Dramatic Play, History Instruction
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Seven, Mehmet Ali – Education Quarterly Reviews, 2021
The purpose of this study is to determine the effects of courses that integrate drama method in primary schools on the decision-making skills of students. In line with this purpose in present study pretest-posttest control grouped experimental research pattern has been employed. The study was conducted in Cahit Sitki Taranci Primary School located…
Descriptors: Dramatic Play, Teaching Methods, Instructional Effectiveness, Decision Making
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Robertson, Natalie; Yim, Bonnie; Paatsch, Louise – Early Child Development and Care, 2020
Dramatic play is a typical activity that provides many benefits for preschool children's learning and development. This paper presents the findings of a mixed-method study that examined the level of preschool children's involvement in dramatic play and the connection between this involvement and the quality of the classroom environment. The study…
Descriptors: Dramatic Play, Educational Quality, Teaching Methods, Student Participation
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Niamh J. O'Leary – CEA Forum, 2023
The benefits of performance-based classroom approaches to teaching Shakespeare have been well-documented in pedagogical scholarship. This paper is an effort to push beyond the performance-based classroom and begin to incorporate ideas from the field of performance studies into a new pedagogical approach that capitalizes on my institution's…
Descriptors: English Literature, Classics (Literature), Dramatic Play, Teaching Methods
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Kiliç, Zeliha; Namdar, Aysegül Oguz – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2021
Values education is central to early childhood education. However, it rarely provides real-life opportunities to engage students. This study investigates the effect of creative drama in acquisition of values by preschoolers. Experimental design with a pre-post-test control group was used. The study group consisted of 44 children aged 5 to 5 ½…
Descriptors: Creative Activities, Dramatic Play, Teaching Methods, Instructional Effectiveness
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Tanner, Samuel Jaye – Teaching Education, 2020
This essay relies on methods of narrative research to both present and consider an example of a second-wave of critical whiteness pedagogy in K-12 contexts. The author focuses on his interactions with one high school student -- Adam -- to theorize how "The Whiteness Project" allowed students to "play with whiteness" in…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Whites, Elementary Secondary Education, High School Students
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Murray, Bruce; Murray, Geralyn – Reading Improvement, 2019
Veteran teacher Rachel Harbison used vivid stories to involve kindergartners in sociodramatic play to motivate reading acquisition. Children learned through staged events that a mischievous Word Queen had planted "tricks" in the alphabet (i.e., the irregularities in English spelling) to prevent children from learning to read. The…
Descriptors: Dramatic Play, Reading Motivation, Reading Instruction, Kindergarten
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Kenanoglu, Dilan; Duran, Munise – Asian Journal of Education and Training, 2021
The aim of this study is to analyze the effect of Traditional Game Education Program (TGEP) on language development of pre-school children. Dependent and independent variables were determined as the children's language development scores and "traditional game education program", respectively. The study group was determined with…
Descriptors: Games, Game Based Learning, Play, Rhyme
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Bravo, Flor A.; Hurtado, Jairo A.; González, Enrique – Education Sciences, 2021
Storytelling and drama are well-known teaching tools that can be used throughout the curriculum for the active participation of students in their own learning process. The introduction of robots in storytelling and drama activities provides students with a meaningful, multisensory, hands-on learning experience. This paper explores the potential…
Descriptors: Robotics, Story Telling, Dramatic Play, Teaching Methods
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Dima, Aikaterini; Kaiafa, Eleni; Tsiaras, Asterios – Open Journal for Educational Research, 2020
The aim of this study is to examine and determine the extent to which educational drama, as an innovative teaching approach, can cultivate critical thinking of students in primary school. Based on the principles of educational drama, 15 theatrical workshops were designed in relation with and corresponding to the culture and interests of the…
Descriptors: Dramatic Play, Experiential Learning, Drama Workshops, Teaching Methods
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Alacapinar, Füsun Gülderen; Uysal, Hatice – Research in Pedagogy, 2020
In this study, pretest-posttest control group design thesis in experimental models was investigated by meta-analysis for pre-school, primary and secondary school mathematics classes based on creative drama method, between years 2000-2020 which are accepted by universities in Turkey. 3 doctoral theses and 20 master's theses that are suitable for…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Instructional Effectiveness, Dramatic Play, Preschool Education
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Karabag, S. Gulin; Aydogan, Okan – Asian Journal of Education and Training, 2021
The aim of this study is to determine the effect of history teaching supported by dramatization technique on students' success and permanence in history education in comparison with the traditional teaching. In this research, the semi experimental method which was practiced by pretest, post-test and permanence test were used and it was studied on…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, History Instruction, Teaching Methods, Dramatic Play
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Wolfsdorf, Adam – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2018
The play within a play has long been understood as Hamlet's attempt to catch the conscience of the King. But is that all it is? Perhaps there's more to the "Murder of Gonzago" than either Hamlet or even Shakespeare, himself, intended? While the narrative of the Player King and Player Queen clearly works to tap into the private guilt of…
Descriptors: English Literature, Drama, Dramatic Play, Teaching Methods
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Sappa, Viviana; Barabasch, Antje – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2020
This paper introduces the results of an evaluation of the Forum-theatre workshop method, which was designed within the framework of a resilience-building intervention. About 230 in-service vocational school teachers in Canton of Ticino participated in the study. A mixed-methods research design was applied to investigate potentialities of the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Resilience (Psychology), Inservice Teacher Education, Intervention
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