Özet:
A number of studies of the effects of drama on individuals’ cognitive and affective
characteristics have been carried out recently. These studies revealed that drama
had positive impact on students’ development of communication skills,
socialization levels, development of emotional intelligence, social skills, empathic
skills and empathic tendencies regardless of the grade levels of the students. In the
present study, the effect of drama education on creativity of prospective classroom
teachers was examined. As the method of this study, experimental design, which is
based on pre-test and post-test, was used. In the research the study group
consisted of 78 the 4th grade students (50 females and 28 males) who attended the
Primary School Teacher Education Program at Elementary Education
Department of Faculty of Education, Kırıkkale University in fall semester of 2006-
2007 academic year. The data in this study was gathered through “Torrance Test
of Creative Thinking-Figural Form A”. “TTCT-Figural, Form A” was applied on
the participants before and after Drama Course, and their pre-test and post-test
scores were compared accordingly. Results of the study showed that at the end of
the Drama Course, the scores of creativity test the students took increased to some
extent in all of the dimensions of creativity test, which are “fluency”, “originality”,
“elaboration”, “resistance to premature closure” and “abstractness of titles”. It was
also found out that participants’ pre-test and post-test creativity scores did not
make a significant difference according to gender variable. Recommendations of
the study include that drama should be an essential part of all teacher education
programs, and more research should be performed focusing on the effects of
drama on students’ various intellectual skills and attitudes.
