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The effect of drama technique on reducing aggressive and aggressive behaviours
What is drama?
Drama, leader and consultant workshop environment, using theater techniques such as role playing and improvisation, is the animation of an event, memory, concept, subject, thought.
How drama effects children?
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It expresses his/her fear, joy, anger, longing with body movements. Drama education is effective for the child to gain self-care skills. Children develop their self-care skills through drama activities. In this way, the child gets to know himself/herself and his/her body in a natural way.
What Is Aggressiveness?
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Aggressive and angry person or people are expressed as aggressive. It comes to the fore especially on behalf of people who turn this situation, which starts with words, into a physical reaction over time.
Benefits of Drama for Child’s Development
Today, drama is one of the new formations for education and
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training. In the rote-based education system, a person cannot get rid of various rules and practices, cannot search and share information. However, drama education has an understanding based entirely on the freedom of the child. For this reason, it has been preferred frequently in recent years.
So, how does drama education affect the development of the child? Drama raises the artistic sensibility of the participant in
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the play of young children, the awareness of himself and others and of the world. It develops the imagination of the child. Drama is a learning tool. It is done through group activity. It demonstrates imagination, imagination, and senses so that children can participate effectively in the learning process. Drama enables the child to learn easily and to put what he/she has learned into practice easily.
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The Effect of Drama on Child Development
Drama has many benefits for the development of the child. Thanks to the effects of drama, children learn how to struggle in every area of life by focusing more quickly on education and business life in the future. The effect of drama on the development of the child includes the following items;
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The most important one among the effects of drama on education is language development. Thanks to the language development of children, they gain important skills such as speaking, thinking, listening and understanding. He develops his language skills in natural ways as a result of the communication he establishes with the group during drama studies. The child first starts with verbal communication and then
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establishes a dialogue with imaginary characters. In this way the child adjusts the tone of voice. Drama gains children not only verbal communication but also body language skills. Along with communication, it also improves language behaviors.
Drama has a great impact on the development of the child. It provides the social development of the child. It strengthens the child’s relationship with his friends. They learn to share,
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cooperate and show respect in the group. The child understands how to socialize and create his own environment. According to the structure of the activities, they learn to discuss, experience events, imagine, creativity, social communication and observation. In addition to being sensitive, it allows children to accept people as they are and to have confidence.
Among the benefits of drama to the development of the child is
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its effect on emotional development. Due to these activities, children can express their emotions easily and can easily experience positive and negative emotions and get rid of the tension on them. Thus, children will know themselves in every field in the future. The child is emotionally relaxed. He easily communicates and socializes with his friends. They easily express their suppressed
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emotions. It enables the child to gain the ability to empathize.
The effect of drama on bullying
Drama allows aggression and aggressive behavior to be removed from the body and provides relaxation. It is especially necessary for high school children. The drama education of people who bullied
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in high school will enable them to look at life with a new perspective. Thanks to these educations, bullying will be prevented.
