When talking about children's drama or drama education, many parents do not understand what the essence is, so the following dialogue always occurs:
"Is children's drama meant to train young actors?"
"My child has no acting foundation. , Can children’s drama be learned?”
In fact, this is a misunderstanding that parents have about the nature of children’s drama, because the focus of children’s drama is not “performance”.
If parents cannot recognize this, how can they help their children better participate in children's drama activities?
Yu Qiuyu said:
"If a child does not have the opportunity to learn acting from an early age, it will be difficult for him to become an attractive social role in the future. Letting children participate in drama performances is not to cultivate literary and artistic lovers, but to give children a sense of society. Skills."
It can be seen that the essence of children's drama is not to cultivate an "actor" or to let children complete a complete performance, but to exercise children's various skills and improve their overall quality through drama performances.
Drama performance is an art subject that integrates literature, music, dance, art, and language. It is also a very effective enlightenment subject for cultivating and improving children's expression ability and public influence. It can also give children a relaxed and free life. The atmosphere allows children to comprehensively develop in personality, social interaction, physical expression and humanistic qualities in a rich dramatic situation.
This is not only the difference between drama education and traditional classroom, but also the importance of drama to children's growth.
For example, when a child participates in a children's drama performance, if he does not have enough empathy, he will not be able to understand the feelings of the characters in the story. If the child wants to perform well, he must learn to think in other people's shoes and have empathy. and the ability to empathize, so that we can understand the character's heart and complete the performance more accurately.
In this process, the child's experience and understanding will also be greatly enriched, which is beneficial to the child's growth.
There are many other cases like this.
Just imagine, in daily life, parents may have told their children countless times to think differently and be considerate of others, but they couldn't listen. But through children's drama, they will know what to do without forcing parents. Thinking of others is one of the reasons why children's theater cannot be replaced.
Therefore, children's drama education is receiving more and more attention. Although it is still in its infancy in our country, in Western countries, drama education is regarded as a "whole-person education". already has a long history, especially In the past 100 years, it has developed rapidly.
In the UK, in drama performance classes in kindergarten and primary school, children will use drama games to practice body control and language expression; after junior high school, British children begin to be exposed to storytelling, improvisation and script performance. During the performance, , children can add their own thinking, or try to express their own attitudes, etc.; after reaching high school, children will still continue drama activities, especially those who really love drama, they may invest more time and energy in drama activities go.
It can be seen that drama activities have an important impact on children's growth.
Therefore, the essence of children's drama has never been simply to teach children to act. In , if parents cannot recognize this clearly, they will not be able to give their children the correct guidance. Parents must get rid of this misunderstanding as soon as possible.
