There are even many friends who think that drama is art and performance. Our children don't major in fine arts and don't need drama education. They just need to study hard and grow up healthily and happily.
Such problems come one after another and never stop. ........
In the years since educational drama entered China, only a few people have realized its importance and necessity. Even many people misinterpret educational dramas. Let's look at the process and significance of educational drama from several aspects, hoping to help you clear your mind.
The education of 1. Drama 1: from the perspective of word meaning
The word drama comes from the Greek word drainein.
A general explanation refers to a part of a poem or prose, in which actors and imitators are arranged, or a story is expressed through dialogue between actions and actors.
From the meaning of the word: drama is a process that needs "people" to do. Basically anyone can do it.
For example, children's games, after a simple agreement, can immediately play themselves into the role of the scene, after the game, it is themselves. This activity is a dramatic realization.
Learners have experienced this practical process, learned some interpersonal relationships in life, and have no difficulty in distinguishing the roles of self and non-self. At the same time, they also satisfied their imagination and learned some cognition and skills. Therefore, dramatic realization is a natural learning instinct of human beings.
2. From the perspective of psychological cognition, in drama games, what they know and feel in their daily life is expressed in a hypothetical environment. Through interaction with others, they can learn social skills such as coping with each other's advance and retreat, appreciating each other, participating in cooperation and understanding other people's feelings.
Therefore, drama game is a learning activity that can follow the development of human psychology. Through the relationship with others, participants can learn important social survival skills.
Three. From the perspective of human cultural development
Looking at drama from the history of human cultural growth, archaeologists reconstruct the course of cultural development according to the clues left over. Primitive ceremony and drama are obviously interrelated, and they have the same basic elements, such as music, dance, speech, masks, costumes, performers, stage and audience.
Early drama activities existed in ceremonies, which is the most primitive way for human beings to formalize their views on the world. Ceremony is a form of knowledge in primitive society and a tool to leave tradition and knowledge.
This ritual drama taught mankind a view of world order at that time, and all responsibilities, roles or actions were fixed and inevitable. In the development of early human society, this form of drama is common in all societies.
It can be seen that from the anthropological point of view, drama has a strong educational purpose.
4. From the perspective of the development of human society, with the development of social and religious rituals, people gradually integrate some activities in daily life into rituals, and then show them in another form for special purposes. The origin of drama has the earliest record. For example, the daily activities of early human beings, such as harvesting, harvesting, offering sacrifices, celebrating, making wine, praying for rain, hunting and breeding offspring, all evolved from improvisation.
These activities with different purposes are performed by ritual dramas with different contents. In these plays, different people must play different social roles. No matter the people who participate in the performance or watch the activities, they can see their social relations and systems in the performance of the repertoire.
5. From the elements of drama connotation, drama is also a kind of entertainment. When human self-confidence increases with their own strength, some secular factors of drama and theater also develop professionally. Drama brings happiness to people, even the saddest and most serious drama brings happiness to people's psychological expression.
As long as a play is made by people, it has the purpose of conveying ideas and allowing the audience to accept his views while watching it.
It can be seen that besides the purpose of entertainment, drama also contains the connotation of education and civilization enlightenment, which is beneficial to society. In our country, there is a saying that education is entertainment, which shows that drama itself is an activity of entertaining people and contains educational significance. Naturally, its educational content is easily accepted by people unconsciously.
Therefore, drama belongs to all mankind, and there are dramas everywhere in human development. The growth of life also needs the environment and nutrients of drama to nourish it, and drama is also the closest educational method to human nature.
The goal of educational drama is to meet the essential needs of national (citizen) education, and the implementation of educational drama in the teaching system is more important, whether in comprehensive or single subject teaching.