About poster 1
Introduction
This poster focuses on ways of working in role with younger students. The images show students and teachers involved in playing, improvising, and presenting in role. They are using a variety of conventions in a range of contexts.
Poster 1 also shows the use of simple technologies, such as costumes and props, to signal particular roles. Most of the images reflect the classroom settings in which younger students first encounter drama and role play.
Note: All references to poster images are to the images on poster 1 unless otherwise indicated.
List of poster 1 images
Title sequence (child dressing up)
- Process drama using the convention of mantle of the expert. Otari School students.
- The Lost Bag, from The New Zealand Curriculum Exemplars: The Arts.
- Process drama, from Playing Our Stories.
- Role play in early childhood, from Exploration/Mana Aotūroa (an early childhood picture pack).
- The caterpillar, from A Cardboard Box (Ready to Read).
- Pirate girls, from “Fearsome Fizmo”, School Journal, Part 2, Number 4, 2003.
- Keisha Castle-Hughes as Pai, from the South Pacific Pictures production of Whalerider.
- Teacher and student in role, from Telling Our Stories.
- Teacher and students in role, from Playing Our Stories.
- Interview, Capital E OnTV.
- Students in role, from Playing Our Stories.
For copyright details for these images, see the acknowledgments on the foot of each poster.