Process drama, a valuable learning medium for young children, can enhance dialogue, collaboration, and creative problem solving in their early childhood education.

Drama as a valuable learning medium in early childhood

Preschool theatre-in-education programs may not significantly impact early childhood development, but they can provide engaging drama experiences and academic supports comparable to traditional early childhood programs.

Does theatre-in-education promote early childhood development?: The effect of drama on language, perspective-taking, and imagination

SENSE Theatre®, a peer-mediated, theater-based intervention, significantly improves social engagement and reduces self-reported anxiety in children with autism spectrum disorder.

Peer Actors and Theater Techniques Play Pivotal Roles in Improving Social Play and Anxiety for Children With Autism

The Social Theatre workshop in primary schools modestly improved children's emotion regulation and reduced outsider behavior, potentially enhancing their well-being at school.

Theatrical Activities in Primary School: Effects on Children’s Emotion Regulation and Bullying

Theater arts and dramatic play can positively impact children's social and emotional development, potentially aiding in identifying and treating early childhood adversities.

Theater Arts as a Beneficial and Educational Venue in Identifying and Providing Therapeutic Coping Skills for Early Childhood Adversities: A Systematic Review of the Literature

Theater for children and young people has evolved over time, becoming more professional, inclusive, and politically driven, while still addressing issues of race, sexuality, and disability.

Theater for Children and Young People

Theatre arts in education can enhance children's understanding of culture, traditions, and moral ethics, while also spreading social messages and promoting social change.

THEATRE ARTS AND ITS IMPORTANCE IN EDUCATION

Theatre for children and youth often distances itself from art and becomes more focused on development and education, potentially limiting real communication with the audience.

Theatre for Children and Youth: Art or Pedagogy?

Educating through theatre is an effective method for children to learn by doing, making them more engaged and loving of their textbooks.

EDUCATION THROUGH THEATRE: HOW THE CHILDREN DESERVE

Children and Drama, a drama methods course, helps undergraduate theatre students learn the organic foundations of theatre and devised performance while preparing them to teach and mentor children.

Learning Theatre from Children

Performances for children in Indian theatre require specific skills, resources, and training, benefiting the conceptualisation of childhood and its ontological status.

‘Producing’ childhood: The making of childhood and children in theatre

Theater acts as a mediator in children's psychological development, fostering language, signs, mediation, imitation, emotion, voluntary activities, and cultural appropriation.

Theater and children’s psychological development

Children aged 3-4 can learn through relational, sensory, and somatic experiences when attending theatre for Early Years Audiences.

Theatres as Sites of Learning: Theatre for Early Years Audiences

English theatre performance, combining language and art, significantly increases learning in young children, benefiting their growth and progress in all aspects.

English Drama Performance in Early Childhood Education

Theatrical activities significantly enhance creative abilities and personal development in preschool children, promoting interest in art and game-dramatizations.

Development of creative abilities in preschool children in theatrical activities

Family plays a crucial role in introducing young people to theatre and sustaining their engagement, contributing to their access to cultural capital, confidence, and literacy.

The Role of Family in Young People’s Theatre Attendance

Theatre interventions positively impact social competencies, particularly empathic abilities, social communication, tolerance, and social interactions, but not self-concept.

The impact of theatre on social competencies: a meta-analytic evaluation

Theatre for young audiences (TYA) is a unique field that combines the complex culturally-inscribed worlds of "children" and "theatre," fostering a unique discursive and practical "space" that promotes and is shaped by multiple ideological dimensions.

Theatre for Young Audiences and Cultural Identity

Active theater has a positive, moderate influence on empathy abilities, but no clear effect on self-esteem.

The impact of theatre on empathy and self-esteem: a meta-analysis

Participation in drama activities positively impacts young adults' personal development, fostering risk-taking and open-mindedness, with girls showing higher scores than boys in these areas.

The impact of theatrical experiences on young adults in Spain

These studies suggest theatre can enhance children's social, emotional, and cognitive development, improve social engagement and reduce anxiety in children with autism, and provide engaging educational experiences.