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Workshop Notes
ActivAte your leArning
• Prepare a presentation for parents outlining the approaches to drama used in your school.
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Drama in education serves a range of purposes.
Process DrAmA AnD ProDuct DrAmA
In broad terms drama education builds on two traditions: Process Drama and Product Drama. In Process Drama the focus is Improvisational. The purpose is learning through participatory and collaboratively developed, teacher led explorations.
In Process Drama Participants are simultaneously Artist and Audience. There is no external audience. Product Drama is script based and performed for an audience. It is most often teacher directed. In Product Drama artist and audience are in parallel experiences.
In these workshops we are working with Process Drama for two related purposes. Firstly, you are learning about making drama. Through making drama we are also focusing on how we teach drama.
