1st Edition
Teaching Through Embodied Learning Dramatizing Key Concepts from Informational Texts
By Margaret Branscombe
Copyright 2019
96 Pages
by
Routledge
94 Pages
by
Routledge
94 Pages
by
Routledge
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Teaching Through Embodied Learning positions drama as an under-utilised but valuable tool for enhancing the learning of information in primary science texts. Creating a ‘tableau’ is an established drama practice for exploring key moments in fiction texts and historical events but less frequently applied with non-fiction texts. Based on doctoral research that studied the impact of having students... Read more
Preface
Acknowledgements
- And Then We Focus On Their Heads
- Becoming Literate
- Embodied Cognition
- Learning Through Group Process
- We All Have Bodies, Don’t We?
Biography
Margaret V. Branscombe is an experienced teacher and has applied drama across the curriculum in primary, secondary and Higher Education contexts. She has a PhD in Literacy Studies from the University of South Florida. She is a Literacy Intervention teacher and her website can be found at www.learnthroughdrama.com.
