Drama, Narrative and Moral Education

Download or read book Drama, Narrative and Moral Education written by Joe Winston and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-06-21 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teachers are expected to take responsibility for children's moral development, particularly in the primary years, but how best to go about approaching the issues? In this book, the author explores a classroom approach that uses both drama and narrative stories to explore moral issues: drama gives children an opportunity to work through moral problems, make decisions and take up moral positions; stories offer a resource for moral education whereby children can learn through the 'experiences' of those in the story. Through providing a number of case studies, the author shows how this may be done by practitioners in the lassroom.