Making Meaning pp 207-228 | Cite as
Lighting the Fires Within:
Pre-service Teachers Learning in and through Drama
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Drama has been a key mode of learning and meaning making throughout recorded history; however, drama's role in teacher education is peripheral at best. Both teacher educators and pre-service teachers, because they often lack drama experience themselves, become fearful of extending themselves through such activities as creative dramatics or process drama in their classrooms. Yet creative drama is an ideal medium for developing literacy, particularly within a multi literacies paradigm. With simple, structured and progressive creative drama techniques, teacher educators can encourage pre-service teachers to become aware of the aesthetic and multi literacy benefits of drama use in their classrooms. A sample unit designed for the teacher education classroom is included.
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