DRAMATIC METHOD IN THE TEACHING PRACTICE: A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE

Abstract

The widespread application of the dramatic method in teaching was developed within the movement for a new school between the two world wars. In the Yugoslav region, this concept was advocated through the ideas of the work school, which emerged as part of a reform movement that garnered significant support from various educational domains. This paper focuses on the experiences of practitioners who were among the early practitioners in the use of dramatic action in teaching. The introductory section of the paper is dedicated to positioning dramatisation in relation to the theoretical framework of the work school. In the central part, the understanding of teachers regarding general issues of the dramatic method in teaching is presented, in the following areas: in the teaching of prose texts, declamation, folk creation, and mathematics instruction. The historical sources on the subject matter are papers published by teachers in the journal “Učitelj” during the period 1933−1940.