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    Author(s)
    Stinson, Madonna
    Raphael, Jo
    Hunter, Mary Ann
    Saunders, John Nicholas
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Stinson, Madonna T.
    Year published
    2015
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    Abstract
    Drama is an artform highly accessible to young people. In education, it is a mode of learning that challenges and supports students to make meaning of their world and enables them to express and communicate ideas in the artform. ΅ ΅ Drama is the enactment of real and imagined events through roles and situations. ΅ ΅ Drama enables individuals and groups to explore, shape and symbolically represent ideas and feelings and their consequences. ΅ ΅ Drama has the capacity to move and transform participants and audiences. It can affirm and challenge values, cultures and identities. ΅ ΅ Drama includes a wide range of experiences, ...
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    Drama is an artform highly accessible to young people. In education, it is a mode of learning that challenges and supports students to make meaning of their world and enables them to express and communicate ideas in the artform. ΅ ΅ Drama is the enactment of real and imagined events through roles and situations. ΅ ΅ Drama enables individuals and groups to explore, shape and symbolically represent ideas and feelings and their consequences. ΅ ΅ Drama has the capacity to move and transform participants and audiences. It can affirm and challenge values, cultures and identities. ΅ ΅ Drama includes a wide range of experiences, such as dramatic play, improvisation, role-play, text interpretation, theatrical performance and multi-modal/hybrid texts. It includes the processes of making, presenting and responding. ΅ ΅ Drama draws on many different contexts, from past and present societies and cultures. Drama is one of the five arts subjects that make up the Australian Curriculum: The Arts. View website » Drama Australia uses the term drama broadly to represent related fields of artistic activity including theatre and performance. Drama encompasses a range of activities that both share conceptual similarities as well as specific differences relating to form and purpose. Drama is recognised and celebrated as a relevant and significant art form that both reflects and contributes to culture.
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    Publisher URI
    http://www.dramaaustralia.org.au/
    Copyright Statement
    © 2015 Drama Australia. This is the author-manuscript version of this paper. Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the journal website for access to the definitive, published version.
    Subject
    Creative Arts, Media and Communication Curriculum and Pedagogy
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/69215
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