| Drama of Color: Improvisation with Multiethnic Folklore Contributor(s): Saldana, Johnny (Author) |
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ISBN: 0435086677 ISBN-13: 9780435086671 Publisher: Heinemann Drama OUR PRICE: $30.59 Product Type: Paperback Published: July 1995 Annotation: Theatre is often perceived as elitist, something reserved for the affluent mainstream. But all children can be given the opportunity to explore dramatic art if individual teachers choose to integrate these experiences into their curriculum. Johnny Saldana's Drama of Color is a unique resource for using drama to enhance K-6 children's ethnic literacy by provoking personal insights into the multiethnic world in which we live. Multiethnic folklore - specifically Hispanic, Native American, Asian and Pacific Islander, and African/African American - becomes a springboard for examining different ethnic perspectives and world views and dispelling stereotypes along the way. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Education | Elementary - Education | Classroom Management - Performing Arts |
| Dewey: 372.642 |
| LCCN: 95-13203 |
| Physical Information: 0.46" H x 5.95" W x 8.92" (0.59 lbs) 169 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Drama of Color is a book for teachers who wish to use folk literature and informal classroom drama to promote multiethnic awareness among elementary students. Salda-a presents twenty folk tales drawn from the oral traditions of Hispanics, Native Americans, Asians and Pacific Islanders, Africans, and African Americans. He encourages teachers to use the literature as a framework and springboard for pantomime and verbal improvisation, adding detailed methods for dramatizations, with follow-up activities in the social studies and language arts. In these dramas, you and your students will find not only the commonalities that link all human beings, but also the special values, symbols, and traditions that differentiate and distinguish us as individuals and groups. |
Contributor Bio(s): Saldana, Johnny: - Johnny Saldana is a professor of theatre at Arizona State University in Tempe, where he supervises theatre education and teacher training. He has conducted workshops on drama in the elementary classroom nationwide, and he received the American Alliance for Theatre & Education's 1989 Creative Drama Award. His exemplary teaching earned him ASU's Burlington Resources Foundation Faculty Achievement Award in 1991, and the ASU College of Fine Arts Distinguished Teacher of the Year Award in 1995. |