Making process drama effective online for children and young people

Download

11_EITN_2024_02_F6_Chakravarty.pdf

Abstract

“Drama always has to include the possibility of ‘something unforeseen’.”

Master teacher Cecily O’Neill wrote this in her article Dorothy Heathcote: Teacher Power and Student Choices in The Journal for Drama in Education, Volume 36, Issue 1, Winter 2021.

We were already mid-pandemic then and this was probably the right time for thinking about the ‘unforeseen’ in the lives of children and young people. Especially when it involved drama - a space of coming together.

If we cannot be in one room, sense each other’s presence, and work together on one big sheet of paper, how can we do drama? How can we be a collective?

In search of finding the collective in isolation, we found the essence of drama. The pandemic taught us how drama truly harnesses the power of imagination and helps in application of life skills and intelligence. If it wasn’t for drama and the power it arms an individual with – to morph, shift and adapt – we wouldn’t have survived the pandemic.

content

Full content in PDF

DOI