The Berlin wall through Drama in Education
At the summer school I attended this year at Freie University in Berlin, our professor Manfred Schewe gave us an exercise I will never forget.
He asked us to use classroom chairs to build the Berlin Wall. We split into two groups: half of us facing one side of the Wall, the others facing the opposite side. Then he said:
“You are the stones on the Wall. Speak. What do you see?”
With our “drama” eyes, we were transported to another time.
With nothing more than a few chairs and the power of imagination, an entire era came alive before us. And the most striking part: we didn’t just hear about it, we lived it.
That's what Drama in Education is.
An approach that allows children to learn with all their senses, to step into roles, to improvise, to experience knowledge through embodiment.
It teaches them to express themselves, to collaborate, to develop empathy, and to connect what they learn with real life.
Drama in Education is not just a method of teaching.
It is the bridge between knowing and understanding as it turns facts into lived experience. Through drama, EDUCATION MOVES FROM THE ABSTRACT TO THE FELT, FROM THE DISTANT TO THE IMMEDIATE.