“Can you even fall in love with yourself?”:using music and drama to enable all students to access Latin literature
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Authors
Rushton, Emily
Publication Date
2018-01-04Journal Title
Journal of Trainee Teacher Educational Research
ISSN
2043-8338
Publisher
Faculty of Education
Volume
volume 9
Pages
107-140
Type
Article
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Rushton, E. (2018). “Can you even fall in love with yourself?”:using music and drama to enable all students to access Latin literature. Journal of Trainee Teacher Educational Research, volume 9 107-140. https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.84183
Abstract
This study explores how the incorporation of musical and dramatic activities into the teaching of Latin literature affects a student’s ability to access the more complex themes of the narrative, and their overall enthusiasm for the subject, in a mixed comprehensive state school. The findings showed that when students were given an alternative method through which to interpret a text in a personable way, their engagement with the text greatly improved. The most important finding of the study, and opportunity for further research, was seemingly how the students were able to translate and discuss their own emotions more fluidly when given a vehicle through which to channel them.
Keywords
PGCE Latin with Classics, Classroom, Education, Music, Drama
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This record's DOI: https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.84183
This record's URL: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/336763
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