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Suthers, Louie; Larkin, Veronicah – 1996
The arts are central to quality early childhood programs. Experiences in the arts commonly attract and sustain children's involvement and provide opportunities for individualized creative responses. This research project investigated the implementation of arts games (structured play experiences based on drama, music, dance, and movement) into the…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Class Activities, Classroom Research, Classroom Techniques
Bonwell, Charles C.; Eison, James A. – 1991
This monograph examines the nature of active learning at the higher education level, the empirical research on its use, the common obstacles and barriers that give rise to faculty resistance, and how faculty and staff can implement active learning techniques. A preliminary section defines active learning and looks at the current climate…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Cooperative Learning, Debate, Discussion (Teaching Technique)
Smith, William A. – 1980
The Education Game, a simulation designed to help professional educators experience what schooling means to students, was originally developed to introduce rural Ecuadorian farmers, who had little formal contact with schools, to the schooling experience, and was later expanded to stimulate discussion among Ecuadorian teachers on school-related…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Dramatic Play, Educational Discrimination, Educational Games
Naumburg, Janet – 1978
The value and function of play behavior in young children, and the process and conditions by which play contributes to learning, cognition and problem solving, are explored in this literature review. The first section examines early theories of play, the psychoanalytic theory of play, and the developmental stages of play. Common elements of play…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Child Development, Children, Classroom Environment
McKinney, James D.; And Others – 1973
The report assesses the impact of career awareness-oriented dramatic play procedures in elementary school children. A sample of 90 second graders from North Carolina (66 from open classrooms and 24 from self-contained classrooms), who participated in a dramatic play program in which they constructed a model community in the classroom, was compared…
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Career Education, Classrooms, Data Analysis
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Rowlands, David – 1965
This teaching aid to the Nuffield French Course offers instructions for the making of puppets and a puppet theater, and a set of dialogues and simple plays. Suggestions are made for using the puppets with the course, and indications of when to introduce each dialogue or play are included. Dialogues designed for units 1-20 and six plays for units…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Design Crafts, Drama, Dramatic Play
Taylor, A. L. – CITE Newsletter (Centre for Information on the Teaching of English), 1969
In an experiment designed to involve reluctant learners in a creative learning experience, a class of youngsters assumed the role of a Sahara Desert tribe and talked about their perplexity in finding a chair washed up on the beach. Using this incident as the focal point for a project, the teacher divided the children into small groups to compose…
Descriptors: Acting, Class Activities, Creative Activities, Creative Dramatics
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Erickson, Karen L. – Language Arts, 1988
Presents a sample lesson (on the Middle Ages) using movement, verbalization, and role playing to introduce students to drama and creative expression. Provides teachers with an in-depth look at a creative process through which they can stimulate learning across the curriculum. (ARH)
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Creative Activities, Creative Dramatics, Drama
Dau, Elizabeth, Ed.; Jones, Elizabeth, Ed. – 1999
Noting that play is an essential aspect of learning for young children, this book presents a collection of articles on children's play in Australia. Part 1, "Play, Development, and Learning," contains the following chapters: (1) "The Role of Play in Development and Learning" (Ann Glover); (2) "Stop, Look, and Listen:…
Descriptors: Adult Child Relationship, Child Development, Cultural Differences, Cultural Pluralism
School Library Media Activities Monthly, 1991
Provides fully developed library media activities that are designed to be used in connection with specific curriculum units. Topics covered include art (U.S. folk art); reading/language arts (dramatizing story events); science (simple machines); and social studies (state and federal legislatures, and explorers). (LRW)
Descriptors: Art Education, Course Integrated Library Instruction, Dramatic Play, Elementary School Science
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Thorsen, Kari Loken; Friis, Pia; Nyhus, Jorunn; Mork, Olga – International Journal of Early Childhood, 1998
Describes four Norwegian kindergarten/day care programs: (1) Tislegard kindergarten and day care center, using community sculptures as the basis for art activities; (2) Bjerkeallen Barnehage, examining the impact on activities and staff relationships when half the staff are men; (3) Labakken, using nature as a central arena for play; and (4)…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Community Resources, Day Care, Dramatic Play
Dockett, Sue – AECA Resource Book Series, 1995
This issue of the ACEA resource series focuses on the role of sociodramatic play in early childhood development, giving recommendations and examples for developing children's social understanding through play. Sections include the following: (1) "Developing Understanding through Play," which introduces the concepts; (2) "Complex…
Descriptors: Child Behavior, Child Caregivers, Child Development, Child Rearing
Oscar Rose Junior Coll., Midwest City, OK. – 1976
The purpose of this Child Development Associate (CDA) training module, one of a series of 18, is to provide the CDA intern with an understanding of both the processes involved in the development of language skills and the role of the teacher in enhancing language development. The module stipulates competency-based objectives and provides essential…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Childrens Literature, Class Activities, Communication Skills
Stratta, Leslie, Ed. – NATE Bulletin, 1966
Thirteen articles on effective classroom teaching of poetry are collected in this bulletin. The relationships of poetry to emotion and to experience are discussed by Barbara Hardy and Donald Thomas. Effective techniques for the British Junior Schools are explored in three articles: Peter Searby and Geoffrey Summerfield create a hypothetical…
Descriptors: Choral Speaking, Creative Dramatics, Creative Teaching, Creative Writing
Hoffman, Virginia – 1968
Rough Rock Demonstration School is directed by local Navaho Indians who are (1) attempting to present both Navajo and American cultures, and (2) concentrating on teaching English as a second language. This illustrated document describes a program developed at Rough Rock which emphasizes oral expression with the use of dramatic dialog. Descriptions…
Descriptors: American Indians, Articulation (Education), Conversational Language Courses, Dramatic Play
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