Favorite stories, poems and plays set the scene for critical reading, creative drama and student pride. (Editor)

This book brings new life to the study of social studies by integrating the tools of creative drama and theater tools like pantomime, movement, improvisation, scripted drama, oral interpretation, debate, public speaking, readers theater, storytelling, and the many other ways the body or voice can be used to creatively communicate ideas to others.…

Examines a program in which college students visited and taught creative dramatics to elementary school students. (RB)

Presents a rationale for teaching creative dramatics and suggests that it can be an important avenue for self-exploration and discovery since it involves the self physically and emotionally, as well as verbally and cognitively. (RB)

Reports on a study to determine the effect of creative drama on the role playing skills of sixth graders. (RB)

Provides a brief sketch on the teaching of creative dramatics in the elementary school and reviews fourteen ERIC documents which deal with this subject. (RB)

How teachers can help students overcome resistance to the language of Shakespeare. (CH)

A New York television writer became a cultural consultant to Colby Community College (Kansas) for a month in a highly successful exchange program. (RN)

The Artistics director of the Henry Street Settlement House in New York City, who is the leading black producer on the theater scene, discusses the problem of relevance to the black community faced by educational theater. (JM)

If children can define right and wrong from their own value system, they'll be better prepared to decide on major problems like drugs and alcohol. (Author/ML)

Sample critique sheets are included. (RD)

Paper presented at a symposium held at Florida State University where various approaches to the use of drama in elementary and secondary schools were considered. (Editor/RY)