The development of the bodily cultural values system as the essential condition of children's drama education

Abstract

This paper is concerned with raising some questions about the body in the theory and practice of drama education. The paper suggests that television and video viewing should be seen, like reading, as an area for educational partnership and dialogue between children, parents and teachers. At the same time the insight into children's responses to horror films, violence scenes shows that they to some extent know how to соре with their feelings. Since in drama classrooms the body is the pre-eminent form of representation, the problem of learning in terms what the body signifies through speech, gesture, posture, relative positions of one body to another is discussed. The emphasis is placed on the social and cultural aspects of the performance of bodies in drama education.