Techniques of classroom role playing that promote student involvement and bring language to life are outlined and discussed, including principles of drama and communication, techniques of theatrical production, and group dynamics. Use is recommended in conventional introductory courses, advanced courses where communication is emphasized, and…

Describes a program for working with drama students in groups and examines qualities of actors' lives as well as professional issues for them. Recommendations are made for counselors working with actors in a university setting. (Author)

An individualized reading process, utilizing task cards and individual conferences, is outlined. Additional ideas are given for using students' book selections in the language arts through discussion, dramatization, and composition. This article is one of four in this issue comprising the Teacher's Reading Seminar 1979. (SJL)

Discusses the development of drama as a learning tool for children's language development. Applies James Britton's methods of language classification to the construction of functional categories of language that operate within the framework of drama and creative dramatics. (RL)

"The Man Who Escaped," a radio crime drama with 25 episodes, was used in a ninth-grade English class. Two class hours are described. The texts used are given and suggestions for teaching are added, along with evaluative commentary. (IFS/WGA)

"And that's the way it was November 13, 1804." Kids trek back through time for an on-location drama. (Editor)

The United Cerebral Palsy of Queens Center conducted a creative dramatics workshop for mental handicaps. Main objectives of the workshop were personality development and social improvement toward better job potential in the outside employment situation. (TA)

Explores the interrelationships between metaphor, play, and drama, and the roles they play in the development of sociolinguistic competence. Focuses on the role of symbolic play in the development of metaphor and on the importance of metaphor in discourse. Also examines the nature of autism, a condition marked by an absence of both symbolic play…

A survey of the managers of 34 residential homes in the United Kingdom found that art activities were the most commonly available form of creative leisure occupation, and drama the least available. Managers perceived the major barrier to creative leisure participation to be the expense. (Contains references.) (Author/CR)

Describes how poetry can be used with the different types of creative drama, including finger plays, pantomime and movement, Readers Theater, sensory awareness, storytelling, choral reading, action poems, role playing, and characterization. (MG)

Emphasizes the educational benefits derived from research in dramatics arts. Cites research indicating that role playing has a positive effect on oral language, moral reasoning, and self-esteem. Points out that teachers and administrators do not include dramatic instruction in their curriculum, and offers ways to make dramatic arts more appealing.…

This paper argues the value of drama processes in science classrooms as a way of enabling students to learn openly from and with each other and of enhancing higher order learning skills. Role-playing, focus, and tension are described as constructs to guide the pedagogy of drama processes. (YP)

Discusses improvements in playground design and how playgrounds for young children can be further improved by more focus on gross-motor, social, dramatic, and constructive play. Also examines the largely negative role of activity panels that many playground companies include on their structures, noting that such panels often present academic…

Examines a coeducational secondary school drama class during collective script creation to determine its stereotypical representations of males. Stereotypes favored by each gender group differed. Preferences appeared to come from textual affinities for certain kinds of reading/viewing material and from the personal and collective fantasy lives of…

Describes the use of Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland" as a thematic device that leads to classroom activities in reading, writing, music, art, and other areas of the curriculum. The project culminates in a play written and created by the entire class. (TM)