Teaching through Drama: Practical Classroom

To practice educational drama effectively requires an understanding of non-didactic, child-centered pedagogical principles as well as skills in a wide range of specific practical drama conventions and strategies. This course introduces key conventions such as still-image and role-playing, explores a range of strategies that can be used to apply them effectively, critiques the educational rationale that supports them, and analyzes the process of structuring drama work to provide maximum learning opportunities. In this course, students gain practical "hands-on" experience of working with young people using the main dramatic conventions of the drama-in-education canon.

Fall, Spring