EDUCATIONAL DRAMA AND ITS ABILITY TO ESTABLISH COHESION

Educational Drama and Its Ability to Establish Cohesion

Executive Summary

The paper discuss about looking into the past and present use of educational drama and its ability to establish cohesion by developing learner's personal & social skills. It is a fact that Drama is important because it represents the best way to train people to be as an actor or playwright or viewing public, in addition to significantly complements the programs of education. The use of drama in education in any of its purposes, turn develops artistic aspects directly or indirectly to be artistic language. Its importance is becoming one of the perfect complements in training the students, as it strengthens the motivation and enthusiasm toward school, creates new incentives and prepares men and women to be able to speak, to talk, to communicate, to form bonds of friendship and face a changing world. Another important principle of drama is the focus on the healthy aspects of the consultants, developing alternatives to conflict, promoting intuition, imagination, development of social and communication skills, thereby enhancing personal development. Finally, the basic strategy to deal with conflicting personal is through fiction. This allows the group to approach difficult aspects of themselves through a distance, called Distancing dramatic, allowing more easily address these issues. Various studies have actually demonstrated the correlation between the academic achievement and drama involvement. The profile of skills in the Core Curriculum of Basic Education level, defined with a humanistic and social scientific basis of the different types of capacity that students must acquire to graduate from this level. Thus, this report looks look in to the present importance of drama in the education sector, and it is regarded as Drama helps children in strengthen academic tasks such as reading and literature, update the child in matters such as language, art, history, assist in the socialization of children, particularly those who had more difficulty communicating, Improve the timeliness and childcare, transmit and inculcate values, take the kids to the reflection, allow children to use all their senses, justify the exercise of thought, stimulate creativity and imagination, children do feel safer, and increase the self-esteem of children. Cohesion is established through drama as various people from different culture and backgrounds share their views openly by uniting for one particular objective. Today schools are playing very important role in promoting drama to establish cohesion. Every school is responsible educating young people and children who in future will be working in diverse society. In America various schools introduce annual Art week as a tool to promote and establish community cohesion.

Educational Drama and Its Ability to Establish Cohesion

Introduction

The dramatic arts contribute to human development in many ways: like expanding the imagination; developing creativity and an aesthetic sense; developing social and psychological sensitivity; enabling healthy communication; enabling life experience development by enhancing written and verbal language arts; contributing to mental and psychomotor development; and developing self-confidence. Drama is an effective instrument when used in educational ...