Has what you’ve seen here whetted your appetite to bring Drama World into your teaching practice? Here are a few resources to begin.
Click on the links below to read more about the role of drama in the classroom.
“Mantle of the expert has strong links with play without children feeling “babyish”. In play a world is made by the will of the players who control that world and live in it as long as they are intrigued by it. This happens in the enterprise also. Everyone is “grown up” carrying the responsibilities of adults and facing up to the results of their decisions.”
—Dorothy Heathcote
“Storytelling is the academic precursor at every level of instruction. The imagination begs to be used at every age and stage of life; it frees the mind of rigid patterns and allows us to visualize new approaches to old questions, moving us on to new possibilities.”
—Vivian Gussin Paley