Developing an Interdisciplinary Culture of Inquiry Through Role Drama |
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The concept of empathy will be explored through the use of two activities Carmine has observed within the last two years: one by Katie Dawson, “Vote From Your Seat;” the other by Brian Edmiston, called "Dramatic Inquiry". Carmine will demonstrate how to fuse these two strategies around one topic, as he has successfully done with groups of 4th to 7th grade teachers and students for both social skills and language arts purposes. We are in a time when our schools must develop an interdisciplinary culture of inquiry in which students work independently and collaboratively, employing critical thinking and multiple intelligences for imaginative problem solving. The fusion of the two strategies that will be explored creates a dynamic approach that fosters higher order thinking and develops the understanding that multiple viewpoints and positions can be held on various topics, while at the same time, clarifying and affirming our own individual values and points of view. |
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Carmine Tabone is the executive director of the Jersey City-based Educational Arts Team, the author of numerous articles on education and drama, and co-author of Drama Activities for K-6 Students and the Magic Circle of Drama, a handbook of over 40 integrated drama and literacy lessons. Carmine has conducted workshops for young people, drama leaders, and teachers in schools and at regional, national, and international conferences for over 35 years. His organization successfully completed a three-year (2005-2008) U. S. Dept of Education grant in the Jersey Public Schools integrating drama into the Language Arts and Social Studies curriculum in which 90% of the treatment group (over 500 students) passed the NJ standardized language arts test, in contrast to only 71% of the control students.
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