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Download full textRandall, Geoff – Opinion, 1967
The primitive elements from which drama evolved--group participation with no audience, a strong relationship between drama and other arts, and a sense of emotional release associated with physical expression--are also the bases for creative drama. Creative drama in the secondary school should (1) avoid a formal stage, the intrusion of an audience,…
Descriptors: Creative Development, Creative Dramatics, Creative Expression, Drama
DELL, WILLIAM C. – 1964
IN CREATIVE WRITING, UNLIKE IN FORMAL COMPOSITION, STUDENTS CHOOSE THEIR OWN FORMS AND MATERIALS TO EXPRESS THEIR THOUGHTS AND FEELINGS. SUCH AN OBJECTIVE DEMANDS A CLASSROOM ATMOSPHERE IN WHICH STUDENTS CAN EXPRESS THEMSELVES FREELY AND CONFIDENTLY WITHOUT FEAR OF HARSH NEGATIVE CRITICISM. IN ADDITION TO WRITING EXTENSIVELY, STUDENTS CAN BE AIDED…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Creative Development, Creative Expression, Creative Writing
Langdon, Margaret – 1961
An account of an "intensive writing" experiment to stimulate and teach secondary students to write freely and creatively is given in this book. The experimental teaching method which stresses emotion, brevity, simplicity, and honesty is described, as well as the stimulus used for each writing lesson, the results obtained, and the children's…
Descriptors: Creative Development, Creative Expression, Creative Teaching, Creative Writing
Paffard, Michael – English: Literature, Criticism, Teaching, 1968
The primary concern of the English teacher should be to develop the unique potential every student has for imaginative thinking and creative expression. The ability to think creatively stimulates the student's intellectual curiosity, frees him from the rigidity of social class values, religious dogma, and historical precedent, and enables him to…
Descriptors: Creative Development, Creative Expression, Creative Thinking, Creativity
Prigmore, George T., Ed. – 1968
This collection of speeches is concerned with the fine arts and crafts programs in elementary and secondary schools. An introduction outlines the problem of aesthetics and fine arts education. Speakers (1) propose a humanities program for students of all abilities; (2) consider whether marching bands serve an aesthetic purpose in the high schools;…
Descriptors: Art Education, Bands (Music), Compensatory Education, Creative Activities
Summerfield, Geoffrey, Ed. – 1968
Creativity and its development in students through creative English programs are the subjects of this report from the Dartmouth Seminar. David Holbrook's paper, "Creativity in the English Programme," maintains that English should be taught creatively to enhance the child's capacity to deal with his inner and outer experiences and to help…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Environment, Creative Development, Creative Expression
Adland, David – Opinion, 1968
Social contact through informal speech, a basic adolescent need, can be most effectively developed in secondary schools through the learning, working, and creating situations of drama activities. Since drama is conflict and living language is action, the process of making a play is as important as the play. Thus, drama creation within a small…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Creative Activities, Creative Development, Creative Dramatics
