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Role of Drama in Early Childhood Education

Drama plays an important role in early childhood education by promoting cognitive, social, and emotional development. It allows children to use their imagination and creativity to take on roles and solve problems. Specific drama techniques taught in preschool like miming, mirroring, costume design, and storytelling help develop children's communication, focus, memory, and language skills. By engaging in dramatic play and pretending to be other characters, children can relieve emotional tension, learn self-regulation, and encourage their language development. Drama should be incorporated into early education as it contributes to children's overall growth and motivation to learn across different domains.

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Role of Drama in Early Childhood Education

Drama plays an important role in early childhood education by promoting cognitive, social, and emotional development. It allows children to use their imagination and creativity to take on roles and solve problems. Specific drama techniques taught in preschool like miming, mirroring, costume design, and storytelling help develop children's communication, focus, memory, and language skills. By engaging in dramatic play and pretending to be other characters, children can relieve emotional tension, learn self-regulation, and encourage their language development. Drama should be incorporated into early education as it contributes to children's overall growth and motivation to learn across different domains.

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ROLE OF DRAMA

IN EARLY
CHILDHOOD
EDUCATION
WHAT IS DRAMA?
• DRAMA IS A SPECIFIC MODE OF
FICTION REPRESENTED IN
PERFORMANCE
• DRAMA COME FROM GREEK
WORD WHICH MEAN ACTION
Drama in education
• is a basic activity for learning.
• children draw on their knowledge
and experience of the real world in
order to create a make believe
world
• drama is one of the few areas of
the curriculum which is built on
dreams and voices
Some characteristics of
drama in education
• Imagination and creativity
• Play
• Creative problem solving
• Performance
• Social aspect of drama
ROLE OF DRAMA IN EARLY
CHILDHOOD EDUCATION

• “Tell me and I will forget.

Show me and I will remember.


Involve me and I will understand.”
BEN FRANKIN
PRE SCHOOL CHILDREN
• Children first learn with motion-
based actions
• brain develops very fast during pre-
school period
• environment deeply influences
children's development and
learning motivation.
• 90% of child’s learning is from what
he see, hear and do
DRAMA ROLE

• Drama affects the cognitive, affective, dynamic, and


social aspects of a child
• Drama enables the child to get involved in the process
• It enable the child a chance to think and express
independently
• - Increases the creativity and imagination
• it contributes to self-perception of the children and to the
development of positive self-concept
CONTD….

• engages students in creative


problem-solving and decision
making
• develops verbal and nonverbal
communication
• enhance students’ psychological
well-being
• builds cooperation and develops
other social skills
Benefits of Drama
•Initiates team work
•Develop communication skills
•Aware of roles, responsibilities and
relationships
•Increase self confidence
•Fun
•Emotional outlet
•Physical fitness
•& many more..
DRAMA
TECHNIQUES
MIMING
• Simple mime can help children focus on
how they show their emotions - which can
lead to more descriptive writing.
• It can help children recognize similarities
in patterns of movements
• Miming use facial expressions, body
movements and gestures to communicate
Mirroring
• Encourage observation,
concentration and physical
expression.

• Develop children's memory skills.


Designing
Costumes
• Costume can help to remind pupils that
they are "in character".
• They can design simple costumes: a
simple hat, cloak or scarf, king’s
crown, etc.
Hot seating
• To practice thinking about a particular
character,
• useful for developing questioning skills
with the rest of the group.
• Teacher guide the questioning in
constructive directions.
Storytelling
• introduce the story with a rhyme to settle
the children before they begin.
• Gestures
• Facial expressions
• Voice modulation
• Reciting lines / words 
• Eye contact
DRAMATIC
PLAY
• PRETEND TO SOMEONE ELSE
• TEACHES SELF-REGULATION.
• RELIEVES EMOTIONAL TENSION.
ENCOURAGE LANGUAGE
DEVELOPMENT.
Drama corner
While planning drama lesson plans
• children’s interests, needs, development
characteristics and age
• Non judgmental
• Sensibility toward unusual behavior
• Simple to complex, known to unknown
• personnel differences should be considered
Conclusion
• DRAMA is a valuable tool in education that can be used
in language acquisition process
• Drama helps in the skill of taking decisions, thinking
independently and the motivation to discover,
• Should have a place in pre-school education since it
contributes to all the fields of development of pre-school
children.
THANKS
YOU!

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