Children Construct Drama Activities

By studying the origin of human's drama, the author analyses the relation between human's drama and children's drama, the psychological happening mechanism and the innate character of which, according to the author, are in consistent with each other. The author argues that children's imitating activity, as long as it reflects their lives and is performed for others partly on purpose, can be called children's drama.Cooperating with teachers in a kindergarten, the author takes an action research on children's constructive drama activity and takes "centering on children" and "constructivism" as their acting principle. Centering on children mainly means centering on children's culture, valuing their wishes and interests and basing on their existing expression capability. The constructive drama activity is the one through reflection under social interaction circumstances. The author insist that, instead of passively accepting knowledge conveyed directly from the environment, only when the individual takes part in the construction of the meaning, can we say study happens, while the opportunity of study only occurs in the social interaction when the involver is willing to get others' opinion. That's why the author regards teachers' scaffolding function as important as well as children's initiative construction as an active subject. A two-way construction of children's drama and life then goes on, the three aspects of which respectively are the constructions of children's performing factors, of children's drama life, and of children's real life.