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Developing Thinking Skills through Drama

Author
John McKellar
Source
Teaching Thinking & Creativity
Date
Nov '08
drama-and-thinking-skillsConfronted with a range of thinking skills approaches and resources, John McKellar opted for a combination of drama and Logovisual Thinking…. to great effect.

"As teachers we appreciate the importance of requiring pupils to think so that they develop the dispositions, or habits of mind, to do so when faced with new concepts or problems.

"This is all well and good but issues remain to be addressed when a school decides to advance thinking skills through its teaching and learning. One issue is that despite schools being encouraged to promote thinking and develop its many skills, there is no substantive guidance as to how this should be achieved..."

Developing Thinking Skills through Drama pdf article, published in Teaching Thinking & Creativity

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