- Title
- Drama in the primary classroom: contextualising critical numeracy
- Creator
- Burke, Rachel; Sharp, Heather
- Relation
- Numeracy in Authentic Contexts: Making Meaning Across the Curriculum p. 143-166
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5736-6_8
- Publisher
- Springer
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2018
- Description
- This description of a simple role-play in the primary classroom illustrates the potential for drama to transform the learning environment. An imagined scenario provides a novel context for participation, learners are empowered to share ‘ownership’ of the classroom assuming various roles in the drama and there is a conscious effort to build on learners’ existing knowledge. Although not identified in the description of the role-play, there are a range of numerate concepts, skills and dispositions inherent to the scenario. The spatial arrangement of furniture to replicate the setting of a train carriage, the numbering of the chairs, the allocation of tickets and roles to each learner, and possibly transactions related to the purchasing of food at the dining car, all require numerate skills and knowledge. Further, in participating in the scenario, the learners assume particular social roles. The introduction of drama, therefore, provides a meaningful context for engagement with numeracy.
- Subject
- numeracy; teaching; primary school; role-play; drama
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1409231
- Identifier
- uon:35970
- Identifier
- ISBN:9789811057342
- Language
- eng
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