Drama Narrative And Moral Education

The author explores how to approach moral development in the classroom using both drama and narrative. Drama gives children an opportunity to work through moral problems, make decisions, and take up moral positions while stories offer a resource for moral education. Through providing a number of case studies, the author shows how this may be done by practitioners in the classroom.

Teachers are expected to take resposibility for children's moral development, particularly in the primary years, but how best to go about approaching the issues? In this book, the author explores a classroom approach that uses both drama and narrative (stories) to explore moral issues: drama gives children an opportunity to work through moral problems, make decisions and take up moral positions; stories offer a resource for moral education whereby children can learn through the experiences of those in the story. Through providing a number of case studies, the author shows how this may be done by practitioners in the classroom.