. Dramatic games and dances for little children. New YorkA. S. BARNES AND COMPANY 1920 COPYRIGHT, 1914,BY THE A. S. BARNES COMPANY THE EVOLUTION OF THE DRAMATIC GAME AS AN ART FORM In the introduction of games as educational material, there has been, until quiterecently, no serious study of the different kinds of games so far as meaning, form of ex-pression, and use are concerned. In all the grades above the kindergarten, most of thegames have been introduced through the gymnasium, as new modes of exercise. For-tunately, the so-called dramatic game does not offer either the kind or amount of a
. Dramatic games and dances for little children. New YorkA. S. BARNES AND COMPANY 1920 COPYRIGHT, 1914,BY THE A. S. BARNES COMPANY THE EVOLUTION OF THE DRAMATIC GAME AS AN ART FORM In the introduction of games as educational material, there has been, until quiterecently, no serious study of the different kinds of games so far as meaning, form of ex-pression, and use are concerned. In all the grades above the kindergarten, most of thegames have been introduced through the gymnasium, as new modes of exercise. For-tunately, the so-called dramatic game does not offer either the kind or amount of activityto make it generally attractive to the teachers who must give so much exercise in fifteenminutes. The result has been that the games of skill have gone into the gymnasiumas appropriate material, while the dramatic games have been discarded. Almost theonly exception to this has been in the case of the folk-dances, and the unfortunate thingin their gymnastic introduction, is the tendency to take the more common and vulgarforms, because thecu31924013370766
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