Overview
- Presents diverse ways theatrical approaches can support learning in science
- Critiques the nature of ‘drama’ and addresses often made assumptions
- Promotes immersive inquiry through drama pedagogy
Part of the book series: Contributions from Science Education Research (CFSE, volume 11)
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Reviewing What We Already Know about the Ways that Drama, Performing Arts and Theatrical Approaches Contribute to Learning Science
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Providing Rich Case Studies of Projects that Describe How Drama has been Applied in Many Different Contexts, Countries and Across a Wide Variety of Scientific Disciplines to Promote Learning
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Illustrating How a Multitude of Research Approaches, Utilising Different Data Collection Methods, Contribute to the Complexity of Evidential Impact of this Kind of Innovative Pedagogy
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Keywords
- Learning science by Drama
- inclusive learning
- Science Education
- understanding Nature of Science
- Drama for teaching Science
- ‘Holy’ science drama
- Exploring the use of role play
- integrating science and drama
- Dramatising learning about stem cells
- Learning Science through Theatre Initiative
- nature of talk in science lessons
- using mixed methods to assess learning
- drama conventions
- nature of science
About this book
This book presents a wide range of international perspectives that explore the different ways the diverse forms of drama supports learning in science. It illustrates how learning science by adopting and adapting theatrical techniques can offer more inclusive ways for students to relate to scientific ideas and concepts. The theatrical processes by which subject matter can be introduced, thought about, discussed, transformed, enacted and disseminated are shown to be endless. The first section of the book considers different ways of theorising and applying drama in classrooms. The second section provides a range of case studies illustrating how role play, performance, embodiment and enquiry approaches can be utilised for learning in primary, secondary and tertiary education contexts. The third section demonstrates how different research methods from questionnaires, particular kinds of tests and even the theatrical conventions themselves can provide rich data that informs how drama impacts on learning science.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Professor Debra (Deb) McGregor works at Oxford Brookes University. She has also worked in a variety of science education positions in primary, secondary and higher education. She has worked in teacher education for over 25 years in Connecticut, USA; Keele University and as Assistant Director of the Centre for Development and Research in Wolverhampton, UK. Her passion for creativity is brought into being through an aspect of her research and development work with teachers on the ways drama can support active and participatory learning in science classrooms.
Dr Dayle Anderson an Adjunct Research Fellow at Ako Pai o Te Herenga Waka, the Faculty of Education at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. She has worked as a scientist, primary teacher, deputy principal, and for many years as a teacher educator and researcher in the field of primary science education. Her focus is on supporting primary teachers to develop science programmes that involve students in learning that builds capabilities for confident and competent engagement with science as citizens.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Learning Science Through Drama
Book Subtitle: Exploring international perspectives
Editors: Debra McGregor, Dayle Anderson
Series Title: Contributions from Science Education Research
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17350-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-17349-3Published: 02 January 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-17352-3Published: 03 January 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-17350-9Published: 01 January 2023
Series ISSN: 2213-3623
Series E-ISSN: 2213-3631
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 325
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Science Education, Creativity and Arts Education, Education, general