Abstract
Integration of drama in the English classroom has consistently increased students’ cultural capital through more positive exposures to drama and oration practice. Especially as AI-based writing seems to be the future of business communication, a return to oral communication skills based in classroom practice will offer students social capital and transferable skills. Tracing the integration of dramatic arts in historic education and compiling data regarding current trends in first-year English composition classes in the greater Boston area informs possible strategies of change to reintroduce historic methods that offered proven results in communication skill-building and personal presence. By reengaging historic techniques and considering alternate strategies of structuring the first-year English curriculum to include dramatic oration, colleges can increase the presence of drama at their institution to directly increase cultural capital, especially in cities fraught with historic inequities that still challenge student successes today.
Presenters
Layla ZeitouniAssociate Professor, English, Roxbury Community College, Massachusetts, United States
Details
Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
Past and Present in the Humanistic Education
KEYWORDS
Drama, Historic Practice, Oration, Speaking, Communication, Boston
