A Study Of Preschool Teachers’ View On Children’s Drama

In recent years, Children’s drama has become a heated topic for preschool education world. In the circumstance that not a few researchers and practitioners prefer introducing western Children’s drama into preschool education, Children’s drama is blossoming while preschool teachers are in great dilemma. The reason for this is preschool teachers have been forming vague opinions. And the opinions will play an important role in deciding how to carry it out and whether teachers can make a full use of it. Therefore, it’s very necessary to study the opinions.This thesis studies preschool teachers’ viewpoints or opinions on Children’s drama with interviewing and observing methods. And it describes and explains Children’s drama, children’s status in Children’s drama, the way that drama develops in kindergarten, the relationship between Children’s drama and kindergarten acting games, and Children’s drama professionalization. Then it concludes that in preschool teacher’s opinion, the Children’s drama is just about having fun, acting and a teaching method and so on.Those opinions are general, overloaded and extreme. And this is resulted in existing teaching experience, teacher’s age and influences from others’ opinions. At last, some advices have been stated for preschool teachers’ opinion on Children’s drama and problems of drama developing in kindergarten. At the end, the researcher reconsiders the relationship between children and drama and relationship between kindergarten and drama.