To cover the distance from traditional to creative learning some new methods of teaching should be invented and applied. To make creative learning from attractive theory educational fact, teachers need to enrich their teaching resources. Technology (multimedia), play and art-especially theatre-might be proved valuable instruments towards this direction. In our opinion, the arts-music, fine arts, theatre-are not independent areas of knowledge. They are neither “supplements” nor “subjects” to be added in the curriculum as an alibi for an education basically sterile and mechanistic. On the contrary, we strongly believe that art could serve as a moving energy, as a key for an olistic education, as the link between learning and creation. We are especially focusing on drama based on the pedagogical common place that imitation, action and role playing are the ways a child impulsively uses to communicate with its own environment and to learn from it.
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Drama, as an area of cohabitation of several different forms of creative expression, gives a child the chance to explore its talents and inclinations, to develop his or her personality
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As a group activity, drama encourages communication and companionship
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Drama may be also used as an alternative for children with learning disabilities who do not respond in the traditional teaching methods.
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The challenge is to prove in practice that drama can be applied as an effective teaching method for all the subjects included in the curriculum. Not exclusively but alternatively to make the learning process flexible, multi-colored and amusing.