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The Importance Of Drama In Education

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Despite the claim that Drama in Education ( DIE) as a pedagogy dimmed its popularity in the Western world since 1990 until 2016 (Gallagher, et al. , 2017), in the year of 2011, Morrow, et al. included it as one of the best practices in literacy instruction. Some of the teachers who had the experience of trying process drama in their classrooms found that the pedagogy improved students’ participations, pushed students to use their imaginations, performed deeper understanding of the topics being learned and made the students learn to have empathy ( Long, 1998). Do the voices from the classroom resemble to what researchers and theories have to say on process drama?
Past and present studies on process drama have referred process drama to some learning theories. The first one, would be of Dewey’s experiential learning ( 1938) . Dewey believed that all learning should happen through experience. It is the key for the transmission of knowledge. For experience to be successful, it has to be unique to each learner. It must also lead to a growth that can be seen through measurable outcomes. Teachers in this realm of theory is considered as guides who set up activities that are potentially beneficial for students development . In setting up beneficial activities for students, Dewey urged the importance to balance between giving freedom and sticking with restrictions. Dewey used the analogy of a baseball game where everybody feels the fun and the freedom of playing, but

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