Preface

Children’s drama is an independent type of drama and has a long history in our country. It is a comprehensive stage art that takes children as its service objects, focuses on the performance of actors, and integrates multiple artistic methods such as literature, music, dance, and fine arts. It creates an artistic environment for children, which needs children to feel with audio-visual and heart. It enables children to be personally on the scene and obtain unique artistic enjoyment. Contemporary children’s drama has also been introduced into school education and become a unique form of children’s creative and autonomous learning.
       The comprehensive characteristics of children’s drama and stage art determine that children's drama performances are more in line with the professional requirements of preschool education students, which is of great help to improve students’ professional skills and comprehensive abilities. The preschool education major is a highly practical and comprehensive major. Students’ artistic skills mainly include vocal music, piano, dance, painting, handicraft, language arts, gymnastics and other abilities. Each of them is one of the core skills of kindergarten teachers’ specialization. In fact, children’s drama course is a kind of“whole person education”. In addition to developing children’s acting talent, it pays attention
to the development of children's intelligence, nature and temperament, and promotes the development of children in all aspects. For example, the most important thing is to tap children’s language ability and right brain development, stimulate children’s courage and cultivate children’s self-confidence, body language, etc. It can not only enhance children’s interest, but also enable children to obtain physical and mental pleasure and development, shape children’s healthy personality, and allow children to fully express themselves.

前 言

儿童戏剧是戏剧中一个独立的剧种，在我国已有较长的历史。它是一种以儿童为服务对象，以演员的表演为中心，综合了文学、音乐、舞蹈、美术等多种艺术手段的综合性舞台艺术。它为儿童创造了一个需要儿童用视听和心灵去感受的艺术环境，使儿童身临其境，获得独特的艺术享受。当代儿童戏剧也被引入学校教育中，成为儿童创造性、自主性学习的一种独特形式。
        儿童戏剧舞台艺术的综合性特征，决定了儿童剧表演更符合学前教育专业学生的专业要求，对提高学生的专业技能和综合能力大有帮助。学前教育专业是一个实用性和综合性很强的专业，学生的艺术技能主要包括声乐、钢琴、舞蹈、绘画、手工、语言艺术、体操等能力，它们都是幼儿园教师专业化的核心技能之一。儿童戏剧课程其实是一种“全人教育”，除了开发孩子的表演天赋外，注重孩子的智力开发、天性释放、气质等方面的开发，同时带动儿童各方面的发展，譬如最重要的是挖掘孩子的语言能力、右脑开发，激发孩子的勇气和培养孩子的自信心、肢体语言等。”既能提升孩子们的兴趣，又能使孩子得到身心的愉悦与发展，塑造孩子的健全人格，让孩子得到充分的自我表达。