Drama
Learning Connections in Primary Schools
Second Edition
Barbara Poston-Anderson
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$94.95 AUD
- ISBN:
- 9780195576993
- Published:
- 11 Sep 2012
- Availability:
- Print on demand
Drama: Learning Connections in Primary Schools is a comprehensive resource, designed to help students learn how to teach drama and successfully integrate it with other areas of the curriculum. Enhanced with rich pedagogy, this book combines a solid coverage of theory with practical strategies for using drama as a learning tool. The book also contains a wealth of activities that pre-service teachers can take into the classroom and use with confidence.
Features:
- New chapter focuses on integrating drama and technology
- Teaches pre-service teachers what they need to know to teach drama in the primary school.
- Promotes multiliteracies, and explains how to teach other subjects through drama.
- Rich with activities, the book is a valuable resource to take into the classroom after the subject is finished.
- Provides rationale and support for drama in the curriculum based on current research, and the author's experience with teaching drama at an academic level
- Problem-based approach to integrating drama with other creative arts and across the curriculum
- Includes a section on the elements of drama, including space, focus, contrast, time, symbol, tension, and mood, each with in-depth examples.
- Includes chapters on key drama forms, such as improvising and role playing
Section 1: Drama in Learning ContextsPart 1: Introducing Drama: Parameters and Possibilities
1: Describing Drama
2: The Drama Mentor Prepares
Part 2: Maximising Learning: Drama In The Curriculum
3: Systematic Planning for Drama
4: Integrated Learning through Drama
5: Social Learning through Drama
Section 2: Drama Blocks for LearninhPart 3: Realising Drama: Developing the Senses
6: Sense of Self
7: Sense of Others
8: Sense of Drama
Part 4: Activating Alternatives: Shaping Drama Experiences
9: Improvising, Role Playing and Playbuilding
10: Story Making, Telling and Dramatising
11: Puppet Making, Operating and Presenting
Part 5: Appreciating Drama: Performance Perspectives
12: Readers' Theatre: Scripting and Staging
13: Children's Theatre: Playwriting, Directing and Performing
14: Theatrical Traditions: Appreciating and Responding
Section 3: Drama Connections with Technology
Part 6: Extending Drama: Uses of Technology
15: Emerging Technologies: Implications for Drama Education
Barbara Poston-Anderson - Associate Professor, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Technology, Sydney
Barbara Poston-Anderson is a drama specialist and an Associate Professor in Education with the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Technology, Sydney. Through her research and teaching, she has explored the potential that drama and other creative arts have for student learning.