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Drama in Education- Richard COurtney

Educational drama is the use of dramatization for the purposes of students’ learning. Depending on how it is used, it can promote one or more of at least four kinds of learning:
1. Intrinsic Learning: improvement of a persons’ qualities: perception, awareness, thought-style, concentration, creativity, self-concept, problem identification, and problem-solving, motivation, persistence, etc.
2. Extrinsic Learning: improvement of the non-dramatic themes and subjects used: eg. History, literature, etc.
3. Aesthetic Learning: improvement of the quality of feeling (our responses) and thus the tactic level of insight, intuition, etc.
4. Artistic learning: improvement of older students’ skill in creating theater.
We can also distinguish the following (organizational) stages of development in educational drama:
Elementary, approx., 5-11 years: dramatic play
Secondary, approx. 12-18 year: dramatic play mingling with theater
Tertiary, approx. 18+ years: theatre based on dramatic play
In the school situation, there are two major approaches to educational drama. Teachers vary in their approach, but the two have more similarities than differences. They are:
A. The Dramatic Method: the use of dramatic activity for learning in parts of, or all, the elements of a school program (‘drama across the curriculum”).
b. Drama as such: as a subject drama has specific elements: creative drama/improvisation, movement, speech/language and, with older students, theater.


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