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Credit points: 10.0
Coordinator: Kate Donelan.
Contact: A 3-hour workshop/seminar a week.
Timetable: Second semester.
Objectives:
On completion of this subject students should be able to:
- understand the major concepts and processes of drama in education;
- initiate and participate in a range of drama activities with understanding and confidence; and
- utilise drama in the primary classroom both as a teaching method and as an activity in its own right.
Content:
The subject explores a variety of approaches and strategies associated with the teaching of drama in the primary school. Basic dramatic concepts such as role taking, are explored through the use of imagination and involvement in pretence. Practical activities and the curriculum issues arising from them form the basis for observation of, and planning for, children doing drama in primary school.
Assessment:
An observation task of approximately 1,500 words (40 per cent); a group teaching project involving planning, implementation and evaluation of a drama session of approximately one hour with children (40 per cent); compilation of a drama resource file (20 per cent).
Prescribed texts:
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Handbook 1996 : Faculty of Education (Parkville Campus) (Volume 5 page 172)
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