Why drama teaching is suitable for children's learning?

In the west, children's drama is a common teaching method and is called "educational drama". Even from kindergarten, children perform plays by themselves. In China, this form is gradually introduced, and more and more primary and secondary schools have started the teaching method of "educational drama". It is nothing new for middle school students, even primary school students and kindergarten children to perform in some large theaters such as the National Grand Theatre, poly theatre and Mei Lanfang Theatre. John, a British primary school teacher, dramatized the theme of the course and conducted constructive situational teaching. He published "Teaching Drama Methods" at 19 1 1, and was regarded as the first teacher to teach drama activities in class. Later, in Britain and America, people constantly applied storytelling, drama performance and improvisation to the classroom.

In the 1960s, educational drama has developed into a universal teaching, and most British schools have corresponding subjects. In 1970s, Dorothy Heathcourt, a British drama teacher, and Burton, a scholar, advocated that drama should be used as a medium, and students should "experience" past experiences to explore and learn. This teaching method establishes the mainstream theory of using drama in classroom teaching. In 1980s, public schools in Britain, Canada, Australia and some Nordic countries included drama in the syllabus, and it was also used in language classes. In the 1990s, parliaments of various countries passed the related art education bills, including drama learning.

In Chinese mainland, it was not until 2000 that educational drama gradually entered people's field of vision and continued to heat up.