Colleen Johnson Response

In Colleen Johnson’s article, “Helping Children to Manage Emotions Which Trigger Aggressive Act: An Approach Through Drama in School”, published on July 7, 2001, he illustrates the growth of the child violence in society, which could be met from homes to schools. Additionally, he proposes the solution for this issue that is to apply drama in school to make students aware of the sign of violence and how to react to these situation to protect themselves and prevent them from aggression. Johnson (2001) starts his article by giving the fact of child violence, which happens constantly in schools, on the street and even from homes. The author states that the main reason of this issue is the increase of aggressive behavior of young people. He also suggest applying drama in education system to make student able to recognize the sign of violence in some
In primary school, students will be taught how to argue properly and the teacher will give them an opportunity to stand up and speak out their opinion with confidence. By approaching to a range of situations in class, the student is able to manage their emotion and keep calm to deal with challenges during their life experience. By the other way, the teachers sometime takes a role play with their student and gives them more challenged situation which make these student understand the value of moral when they give a hand to help people in need. In secondary school, the student are challenged by more difficult situations, which are about how to handle a racial harassment or in a dangerous situation. For each situation, student are encouraged to give out their idea to resolve problem and after that, teachers will show them what they should do when they have to face these problem to protect themselves (Johnson,