Oral Tradition in Children Education: A Systematic Approach with Educational Drama
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2014-08
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Nigerian Journal of Oral Literatures
Abstract
The age-long tradition of impacting and preserving traditional culture,
norms and values through oral tradition is gradually disappearing into
thin air with the advent of transcultural development, exposure to foreign
media of communication, influx of alternative entertainment and social
media platforms. Whereas we secretly crave for our children to embrace
our traditional values, the means of transference has perpetually eluded
ever busy career-driven urban parents who themselves hardly enjoyed the
lore of oral tradition. This paper espouses a performance approach that
relies on a process-based technique in impacting children using the basic
principles of educational drama. This paper shall therefore propose a bridge
of oral traditions using the techniques that abound in educational drama
to inculcate basic traditional values lacking in modern family life through
school curriculum.
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Theatre, Oral tradition, Educational drama, Process drama