WEEK 41 - Ainhoa Merino

 DRAMA

I have to admit that my perspective or way of looking at drama has completely changed after working on it for a whole week. Before, I might have thought that the drama was just a simple performance and had no other purpose. Now, however, I know I was wrong.

During this week, we have worked on dramatization in different ways. We have done several games to get us into the drama, which have been very valuable in getting us into this "game". For example, reading images that we created ourselves with our own bodies was very interesting because we were then, able to change the story told by our partner's body, adding our own body to the same image. 

In addition, we were able to create a story in our groups. It was an interesting process to put our ideas together and at the same time think about how we were going to represent that. We also thought about whether it was going to be a process or a product. It was a long work but I think, considering the lack of experience we had with dramatization, it turned out well. It was also fun to see all the other groups perform on Friday.It was, in a way, sor of sumarizing the whole week in a way. It was, in a way, a nice way of sumarizing the whole week.

To finish I wanted to take a word and according to Lindqvist (2007), when adults adopt roles and dramatize a sequence of events they open a door to a world of play into which the child can enter. In addition to this, children use narration in their play and tell a story while performing it in action, dramatizing it. In other words, dramatization opens many doors for children to play, to learn, so it is a basic tool in our work in the future as teachers.