The Dramatization of Bible Stories

The Dramatization of Bible Stories - An experiment in the religious education of children

By Edward Scribner Ames This book is its own best commendation, for it is a most convincing record of an important experiment in education. It is the more interesting because it is a real contribution to educational method from the field of religious education, which too often only appropriates and imitates what has been achieved elsewhere. This experiment is founded upon the powerful dramatic impulse of children and upon the educative value of the natural expression of that impulse under the mutual self-criticism of the participating group. The function of the leader has been that of an unobtrusive member of the group contributing such suggestions from a wider experience and deeper insight as would naturally elicit and guide that criticism. That this fine art of teaching has been realized with unusual skill in this experiment will be apparent to the discerning readers of this record, as it has been by those who have watched the progress of the work itself. Too much emphasis cannot be given to the fact that the primary aim of this use of dramatization is the education of the children and not the[Pg 2] entertainment of spectators, although, when such dramatization is rightly estimated, nothing could be more genuinely entertaining. Those who are expecting to find here ready-made plays for children, with directions for staging them, will be properly disappointed, while those who are seeking illustrations of vital methods of education through the cultivation and use of the dramatic impulse will be amply rewarded. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 39022
Author: Lobingier, Elizabeth Miller
Release Date: Mar 1, 2012
Format: eBook
Language: English