Do school trips to the theatre provide any educational benefits?
Written By: Author(s): Daryn Egan-Simon
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First large-scale experiment examining the social and cognitive effects of theatre field trips
Title: The Play’s the Thing: Experimentally Examining the Social and Cognitive Effects of School Field Trips to Live Theatre Performances
Published: Educational Researcher (2018). Vol. 47(4), pp. 246– 254. 2018
Authors: Jay P. Greene (Professor of Education, University of Arkansas)
Heidi H. Erickson (Doctoral Fellow, University of Arkansas)
Angela R. Watson (Distinguished Doctoral Fellow, University of Arkansas)
Molly I. Beck (Distinguished Doctoral Fellow, University of Arkansas)
What did the research explore?
Cultural trips to museums, theatres and art galleries are a well-established educational practice across the world. However, there is still little systematic evidence exploring the educational benefits of such visits (Green et al., 2018). In fact, according to the authors, this is the first large-scale experiment to examine the social and cognitive effects of school field trips to live theatre performances.
The research addressed the question of whether school vis
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