Play to stay: Pedagogical imperatives to go online or go home: Drama therapy students say, "We wanna go home!" - Sally Bailey (My University, 2015)
Certain academic courses do not lend themselves to being taught online. Areas of study, such as theatre, therapy, and drama therapy, need to be taught face-to-face in an in-person classroom setting. Students who will be working with others in artistic and therapeutic situations desire and require the live contact as their learning environment, reporting that they miss out on much of the non-verbal information that computers cut off, even when meeting on screen in real time.
Keywords: Online Learning; Ethics; Drama Therapy; Embodied Teaching; Embodied Learning; Theater