Children are aware of drama long before they enter the school system, the whole area of make believe involves a certain amount of drama. Often children's games are based in this world and it helps them make sense of the society they are entering. When children play at games such as mammies and daddies, doctors and nurses etc. they enter the adult world and assume characters, they get into role. This is important to their development because within this context they apply rational thinking and logic to their play in an effort to obtain answers to the things that puzzle them in this confusing world. "In play there is obvious learning potential in terms of skills and objective knowledge ..... it has to be felt for it to be effective"

Pre-school years are an important formative era for children in which they actively employ their own sense of logic to events and happenings around them. In his book "Making Sense of Drama" Jonothan Needlands sees school as an opportunity to "build these bridges between what they already know and the new learning presented by the school" which is best done through experience in order for real and effective learning to take place. He believes in the type of drama that "seeks to develop and extend children's existing cultural resources in ways that are both familiar and also stretching"

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