Drama Integration and Memory: Co-Constructing Experiences From Fourth Grade

• In Event: AERA Graduate Student Research in Progress Roundtable Session Two
  In Roundtable Session: Understanding Student Relationships and Experiences in School: The Role of Identity, Praise, Motivation, and Memory (Table 17)

Abstract

This practitioner inquiry study positioned a practitioner (myself) and my former students as co-researchers as we collectively inquired into our previous experiences with drama integration. The purpose of this study is to explore how students and their teacher remember their drama integration educational experiences four years later, and to consider why students find those experiences significant. This study uses practitioner and student perspectives to argue for drama integration in elementary spaces, in the hopes that more students might have memorable and positive educational experiences.

Author

• Jacqueline Winsch, University of Pennsylvania
  Presenting Author