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9780325000763

Educational Drama and Language Arts: What Research Shows

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  • ISBN13:

    9780325000763

  • ISBN10:

    032500076X

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1998-03-19
  • Publisher: Heinemann
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Summary

"Does classroom drama actually teach anything?" In this book, the best studies in both the qualitative and quantitative research paradigms are presented.

Author Biography

BETTY JANE WAGNER is a professor in the College of Education at Roosevelt University and director of the Chicago Area Writing Project. She is an internationally recognized authority on composition instruction and the educational uses of drama.

Table of Contents

PART 1 OVERVIEW
Rationale and Definitions
1(14)
A Theoretical Framework for Educational Drama
15(19)
PART 2 LANGUAGE AND THINKING
Oral Language
34(23)
Language Power Through Working in Role
57(20)
David Booth
Reflection and Cognition
77(13)
Repositioning Views/Reviewing Positions: Forming Complex Understandings in Dialogue
90(28)
Brian Edmiston
Jeffrey Wilhelm
PART 3 WRITING AND READING
Writing
118(30)
The Children's Forum: Linking Writing, Drama, and the Development of Community in an Urban Classroom
148(25)
Anne Haas Dyson
Story Recall, Reader Response, and Comprehension
173(26)
PART 4 RESEARCH PARADIGMS AND THE FUTURE
Meta-Analysis of the Effectiveness of Creative Drama
199(13)
FranCina Conard
Reflective Practitioner Research
212(19)
Philip Taylor
Action Research and the Future
231(15)
References 246(55)
Contributors 301(2)
Index 303

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