Science and Drama: Contemporary and Creative Approaches to Teaching and Learning

This edited volume presents interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches to drama and science in education, exploring connections between drama and science, promoting scientific literacy, creativity, and empathetic understandings, and contributing to deeper, more engaged, and transformative student learning.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 272 pages
Publication date: 24 November 2022
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG

This edited volume presents interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches to drama and science in education, drawing on a solid basis of research to offer theoretical backgrounds, showcase rich examples, and provide evidence of improved student learning and engagement. The chapters explore various connections between drama and science, including students' ability to engage with science through drama, dramatising STEM, mutuality and inter-relativity in drama and science, dramatic play-based outdoor activities, and creating embodied, aesthetic, and affective learning experiences. The book illustrates how drama education draws upon contemporary issues and their complexity, intertwining with science education in promoting scientific literacy, creativity, and empathetic understandings needed to interpret and respond to the many challenges of our times. Findings throughout the book demonstrate how lessons learned from drama and science education can remain discrete yet when brought together, contribute to deeper, more engaged, and transformative student learning.

Weight: 444g
Dimension: 235 x 155 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783030844035
Edition number: 1st ed. 2021