Why bring drama into the classroom? • It engages multiple forms of Howard Gardner’s multiple inte... more Why bring drama into the classroom? • It engages multiple forms of Howard Gardner’s multiple intelligences—particular those that are often missing from a more traditional classroom (e.g. bodily-kinesthetic, interpersonal, intrapersonal, visual, spatial, linguistic) • It integrates all three major ways humans think as proposed by Jerome Bruner (psychologist-constructivist): o Enactive – knowing through experiencing with the body o Iconic – knowing through image (in mind, drawing, or gesture) o Symbolic – knowing through translation into language (Wagner, 2002) • “Drama aids thinking because it has the same goal as that of all cognition—to understand, to gain a larger perspective on, and to engage more profoundly with the world ” (Wagner 2002). • Research in 1999 by Brown and Pleydell reveals strong evidence that movement plays an essential role in thinking, learning, and sensory integration. (Culham, 2002) • Use of authentic dramatic texts offer examples of conversational dialogue (i...
Why bring drama into the classroom? • It engages multiple forms of Howard Gardner’s multiple inte... more Why bring drama into the classroom? • It engages multiple forms of Howard Gardner’s multiple intelligences—particular those that are often missing from a more traditional classroom (e.g. bodily-kinesthetic, interpersonal, intrapersonal, visual, spatial, linguistic) • It integrates all three major ways humans think as proposed by Jerome Bruner (psychologist-constructivist): o Enactive – knowing through experiencing with the body o Iconic – knowing through image (in mind, drawing, or gesture) o Symbolic – knowing through translation into language (Wagner, 2002) • “Drama aids thinking because it has the same goal as that of all cognition—to understand, to gain a larger perspective on, and to engage more profoundly with the world ” (Wagner 2002). • Research in 1999 by Brown and Pleydell reveals strong evidence that movement plays an essential role in thinking, learning, and sensory integration. (Culham, 2002) • Use of authentic dramatic texts offer examples of conversational dialogue (i...
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