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Rooted in the progressive education movement of the 1930s, Ward sought to educate the whole child, with the notion that, “the child could achieve an understanding of self and society.” [3] Ward’s method emphasizes storytelling that grows from nonverbal movement and pantomime, eventually becoming dialogue and characterization and ultimately an integrated drama.
Theatre in Education: A professional team of trained and experienced actor-teachers prepares materials, projects, and experiments to be presented in schools. TIE programmes often involve more than one visit, are usually devised and researched by the team/teachers, and are for small groups of one or two classes of a specific age.
Even for toys that don't possess explicit educational value, a thoughtful parent or teacher can turn a static figurine, for example, into an object of interest, by pointing out its features or costumes, or referring to its history or science (e.g., a figurine of a Native American may be a starting point for exploring American history; a Santa ...
Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance: a play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on radio or television. [1] Considered as a genre of poetry in general, the dramatic mode has been contrasted with the epic and the lyrical modes ever since Aristotle's Poetics (c. 335 BC)—the earliest work of dramatic theory.
American Drama between the Wars (1991) online; Palmer, David, ed. Visions of Tragedy in Modern American Drama (Bloomsbury, 2018). Richardson, Gary A. American Drama through World War I (1997) online; Roudane, Matthew C. American Drama Since 1960: A Critical History (1996) online; Shiach, Don. American Drama 1900–1990 (2000) Vacha, John.
Theatre studies (sometimes referred to as theatrology or dramatics) is the study of theatrical performance in relation to its literary, physical, psychological, sociological, and historical contexts.
Applied drama is a term that has gained popularity towards the end of the 20th century to describe drama practice in an educational, community, or therapeutic context. Applied drama can be either scripted or unscripted. [ 2 ]
The first American lyceum, "Millbury Branch Number 1 of the American Lyceum," was founded by Josiah Holbrook in 1826. Holbrook was a traveling lecturer and teacher who believed that education was a lifelong experience, and intended to create a National American Lyceum organization that would oversee this method of teaching. Other educators ...