"If this is so fun for adults, it must be a thousand times more fun for children!" : Adult teacher students experiences on grouping through drama course practices
Lähdesmäki, S. (2016). "If this is so fun for adults, it must be a thousand times more fun for children!" : Adult teacher students experiences on grouping through drama course practices. In INTED 2016 Proceedings : 10th International Technology, Education and Development Conference (pp. 736-743). IATED. doi:10.21125/inted.2016.1174
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© the Author. This is a final draft version of an article whose final and definitive form has been published in the INTED 2016 Proceedings by IATED. Published in this repository with the kind permission of the publisher.
Cooperative learning, grouping, flexibility in communication and transformational ways of learning
play a very important role in today's learning environments. Future teachers need strong
experience in grouping and in the mechanisms that lie beyond the ways people form groups. It is
essential to make teacher students familiar with the methods of how to positively influence the
atmosphere where pupils are forming groups, communicating and cooperating. Drama education
has unique and very effective methods for successful grouping. This study reflects the meanings
teacher students give on drama course practices influencing their experiences on grouping. The
study was executed in Finland at the Kokkola University Consortium Chydenius. Drama education
course is part of an adult students' teacher education programme and it takes place at the
beginning of the studies of new courses. Through the drama education course the students dive
into the variety of drama methods by experiencin
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