Drama e-book

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