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Button, Stuart – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2006
This article presents an example of a project designed to get children of different ages working together and working for each other. The project relied quite heavily on children creating a dramatic context and the author shows how the dramatic element has the potential to affect their learning in positive ways. The provision of a shared…
Descriptors: Drama, Dramatic Play, Dramatic Arts, Theater Arts
Hardy, Barbara – 1974
Experience is a necessary component and complement for the intellectual and academic study of drama, and consciousness-expanding alternatives to the classroom are viable alternatives, representing conceptual organizations positive in value. Festivity and celebration can serve a dual prupose: to expand consciousness of the literary period outside…
Descriptors: Comedy, Creative Dramatics, Dramatic Play, Humor

Heathcote, Dorothy; Herbert, Phyl – Theory into Practice, 1985
When the "mantle of the expert" system of teaching is used in drama, the teacher assumes a fictional role which places the student in the position of being the expert. In this project, students were historians/anthropologists charged with the responsibility of creating a Bronze Age community. (MT)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Dramatic Play, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Strategies

Verriour, Patrick – Theory into Practice, 1985
Because of the close interrelationship among language, thinking, and the contexts in which learning takes place, many children experience difficulties when they enter school. This article discusses ways in which dramatic contexts can provide continuity between home and school by enabling children to take control of their thinking and language. (MT)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Dramatic Play, Imagination, Language Proficiency

Tarlington, Carole – Theory into Practice, 1985
This article describes ways in which the dramatic context can provide children with a purpose for writing. When writing is integrated with drama, children can reflect on a problem by expressing their thoughts and feelings in different forms ranging from the personal and private to the more formal and public. (MT)
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Dramatic Play, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Strategies

Wright, Lin – Theory into Practice, 1985
Traditionally, classroom drama is a safe literary activity that involves students in reading or writing scripts. The newer methods that have the students out of their seats improvising drama require training that few teachers have had. Current teacher training methods are described, and alternative methods are suggested. (MT)
Descriptors: Creativity, Dramatic Play, Higher Education, Methods Courses
Olsen, Amanda E.; Sumsion, Jennifer – 2000
This study explores early childhood teacher practices regarding the use of dramatic play in Kindergarten to Year 2 (K-2) classrooms. Four early childhood teachers working in Kindergarten participated in the study. Two of these teachers rarely used dramatic play. They were interviewed to explore their perceptions of the importance of dramatic play,…
Descriptors: Dramatic Play, Interviews, Primary Education, Teacher Behavior
DeLong, Martha – Parks and Recreation, 1973
A description of locations that the National Capital Parks Service has redone and provided with live reenactments of the events that made them important in history. (JA)
Descriptors: American History, Drama, Dramatic Play, History Instruction
Sacks, James M. – Educational Technology, 1973
Descriptors: Counseling, Dramatic Play, Group Counseling, Group Therapy

Morrison, Malcolm – English in Australia, 1971
Children come to terms with real life through acting out contrasting reactions to situations. One must be careful, however, to chose plays appropriate to the age of the actor. (AF)
Descriptors: Dramatic Play, Dramatics, Emotional Experience, Group Experience
Olson, Ernest – Parks and Recreation, 1979
Mime is discussed as a group recreational activity. (JD)
Descriptors: Dramatic Play, Group Activities, Pantomime, Recreational Activities

Stinner, Art; Tecihman, Jurgen – Science and Education, 2003
Presents a dramatization of a fictitious debate about the age of the earth that takes place at the Royal Institution, London, England, in the year 1872 among Sir William Thomson, T.H. Huxley, Sir Charles Lyell, and Hermann von Helmholtz. (Contains 17 references.) (Author/YDS)
Descriptors: Dramatic Play, Earth Science, Geology, Science Education
Belka, David – Teaching Elementary Physical Education, 2006
Tag games have been described as "Chasing, fleeing, and dodging" type activities. Most "fleeing" activities involve dramatic play, use of movement concepts (such as quick and light), or movement changes without a partner, while many of the chasing and dodging activities utilize dodging concepts between partners or within small groups and are…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Integrated Curriculum, Dramatic Play, Team Sports
Dickinson, David K.; Darrow, Catherine L.; Tinubu, Titilayo A. – Early Education and Development, 2008
Research Findings: This article is based on the premise that the field of early childhood education needs to begin to study the details of teacher-child interaction if it is to understand fully what aspects of classrooms foster development and to create effective professional development interventions. To this end, we report analyses of four Head…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Teacher Behavior, Dramatic Play, Early Childhood Education
Mendelson, Marilyn – Instr, 1969
Descriptors: Childrens Games, Creative Expression, Dramatic Play, Recreational Activities