Creative Learning, makes use of Theater techniques while comprising a methodology for teaching. Creative and practical elements originating from a range of other arts, are likely to be used. However, the theater is likely to be the main source since, here we have the action and the experience incorporated, mainly the collective experience rather than the individual.

Here we have an alternative kind of learning, a methodology which takes elements from Drama that could serve  amateur purposes  or not, but which however, are indispensable for creating  the setting in which we are to work.

The Art of Theater differs from Creative Learning. In a theatrical play, our main interest lies in the final outcome that it is integral and perfect, in other words, that the play is worth attending, In creative learning our main interest covers the medium, the techniques, and the various ways we use within the boundaries of teaching, whereas the final outcome depends on the extend of learning the students have acquired in other words, how well each time they grasp the learning object .

Once more we should make clear that creative learning should by no means get  involved in the requirements of a ‘work of art’. The ‘beautiful’ we seek in a work of art, has an entirely different meaning in the issue of creative learning. In the specific case when speaking of the beautiful, we make reference to the extend of knowledge gained through playing, acting or creating. Our interest and preoccupation should delve in the field learning, on how well we assimilate knowledge, and to what extend we conquer the object of learning.

It is therefore  within this scheme which is formed according to our educational aims and the manner in which the lesson is planned that we should  take into consideration the following:

  1. Human field

  2. Imaginative realm

  3. Roles – characters

  4. The dramatic conflict

  5. The center of interest

  6. Imaginative place

  7. Time

  8. Participation

  9. Language and movement

  10. Symbols

A careful analysis and definition of the above could be accomplished by using an example from the scheduled  primary school  program.