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Boab Purple Arts

Oct 31, 2025

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The Role of New Media in Youths’ Protests and Agitations: An Interrogation of Civic Activism in #Endsars

The digital age, with its new media, has brought transformation and innovation to information transmission. This has not only diversified communication routes but also made it easily accessible to people in a globalised community. It has created a means through which people express themselves and sh... Read more

The Role of New Media in Youths’ Protests and Agitations: An Interrogation of Civic Activism in #Endsars

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Boab Purple Arts

Oct 31, 2025

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Inside Nollywood: Issues and Perspective on Nigeria Cinema

The idea of a book on Nollywood began as a discussion between the editors to contribute to the emerging debate on this film culture. As scholars cum practitioners, we felt a need to contribute to the debate in order to point out the real state of affairs in an industry that many would agree is funct... Read more

Inside Nollywood: Issues and Perspective on Nigeria Cinema

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Boab Purple Arts

Oct 30, 2025

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Technology, Intercultural Dialogue and the Future of the Performing Arts - Book of Proceedings & Abstracts, 2025

Theatre as Pedagogical Strategy in Higher Education for Global Competitiveness: Spotlight on Teaching and Learning Educational Management in Nigerian Universities:

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The integration of drama-based pedagogy as a coeducational tool to foster critical
thinking, problem-solving... Read more

Technology, Intercultural Dialogue and the Future of the Performing Arts - Book of Proceedings & Abstracts, 2025

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Boab Purple Arts

Oct 6, 2025

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Redefining Gender Roles: An Odyssey of Tests and Triumphs for African Women in Irene Salami-Agunloye’s Sweet Revenge and Idia, the Warrior Queen of Benin

This study explored the renegotiation of gendering of roles, as well as the portrayal of the struggles and successes
of African women in Irene Salami-Agunloye that are reflected in her plays, Sweet Revenge and Idia, the Warrior
Queen of Benin. Although the feminist African discourse h... Read more

Redefining Gender Roles: An Odyssey of Tests and Triumphs for African Women in Irene Salami-Agunloye’s Sweet Revenge and Idia, the Warrior Queen of Benin

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Boab Purple Arts

Oct 1, 2025

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Classroom Drama: A Gateway for Nurturing Cultural Consciousness for Human Development in Children

There are significant contributions from educators and researchers in establishing the role of drama in fostering holistic child development. Increased efforts have also been made to integrate drama fully into the school curriculum for the exploration of the multifaceted importance of drama. Despite... Read more

Classroom Drama: A Gateway for Nurturing Cultural Consciousness for Human Development in Children

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Boab Purple Arts

Sep 29, 2025

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Storytelling and Early Learners Educational Development: An Experiment

Africa is very rich in oral literature which keeps evolving and outliving several decades of human existence. Storytelling is one of the oral literature's oldest art forms. Its main essence is that of a person role playing and interacting with others in an assumed role. This study explored the chall... Read more

Storytelling and Early Learners Educational Development: An Experiment

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Boab Purple Arts

Sep 29, 2025

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Developing Communication Skills: A Theatrical Approach

Communication is a central and fundamental aspect of all human interactions. It is not just to communicate, but to communicate effectively. Communication takes place irrespective of who, where and when. Even a deliberate refusal to communicate is still termed communication because communication can ... Read more

Developing Communication Skills: A Theatrical Approach

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Boab Purple Arts

Sep 29, 2025

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Ritual of İbálé' (Virginity) at the Footpath of Fate in Nigerian Films: Gender Issues in Tunde Kelani's Film The Narrow Path'

This paper is a study on gender attributes possessed by women despite the general notion in a society in which men hold primary power and dominant roles of political headship, social privileges and moral authority in countries like Nigeria especially the Yorubá society as represented in video-films... Read more

Ritual of İbálé' (Virginity) at the Footpath of Fate in Nigerian Films: Gender Issues in Tunde Kelani's Film The Narrow Path'

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Boab Purple Arts

Sep 29, 2025

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Fostering Inclusive Practices for Children of Other Cultures: A Children's Theatre Approach

With globalization, there is an increase in migration of people driven by a variety of factors like economic opportunities, access to quality education, war and conflicts, availability of social amenities, and in recent times, climate change. It has therefore become imperative to understa... Read more

Fostering Inclusive Practices for Children of Other Cultures: A Children's Theatre Approach

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Boab Purple Arts

Sep 26, 2025

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Techniques and Strategies of Re-Inventing Theatre Management in an Educational Theatre

Educational Theatres have found a place in many Institutions of higher learning in Nigeria. It is saddled with the dual responsibility of training and producing well-seasoned theatre graduates. To achieve this objective, Theatre Management has an important and conspicuous role to play. This paper hi... Read more

Techniques and Strategies of Re-Inventing Theatre Management in an Educational Theatre

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Boab Purple Arts

Sep 26, 2025

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Re-Engineering Educational Theatre: Publicity as a Panacea

The Theatre has been defined (Brockett 2000) and its functions discussed. Within the Theatre field is Educational Theatre which performs the dual functions of training and producing Theatre Arts graduates. The prevalent technological advancement makes it imperative for educational Theatre to change.... Read more

Re-Engineering Educational Theatre: Publicity as a Panacea

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Boab Purple Arts

Sep 26, 2025

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Theatre as Celebration in Traditional African Society: A Case Study of Ogudu Festival in Amоkаpu Unkpа, Abia State, Nigeria

The development of indigenous dramatic tradition is inherent in festivals, rituals, cultures and religious ceremonies of African society. This has led to a more diligent study of the art form till date. Writers and critics have sprung up over the years to air different views and opinions about the t... Read more

Theatre as Celebration in Traditional African Society: A Case Study of Ogudu Festival in Amоkаpu Unkpа, Abia State, Nigeria

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Boab Purple Arts

Sep 26, 2025

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Entertainment: Succour To Healthcare

In recent years, physicians, psychologists, and economists have embarked on a journey to illuminate the connection between joy and wellness. Fascinating research exists, and there is value in understanding the effect of happiness on our lives. Happiness has been correlated with better health, both i... Read more

Entertainment: Succour To Healthcare

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Boab Purple Arts

Sep 26, 2025

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Aroko Among the Yoruba: Its Communicative Value in Drama

Communication strategy is not a novel idea it is not just the product of the European. The Yoruba of West Africa are skillful in the use of communication strategy that is
predominantly culture propagating and culture bound. How aroco falls in this category, especially in relation to drama
an... Read more

Aroko Among the Yoruba: Its Communicative Value in Drama

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Boab Purple Arts

Sep 26, 2025

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Conflicts and Culture Mutation in Dipo Kalejaiye’s The Chosen Beloved

Human beings exist in a diverse world. There is a high tendency for complexities, resistance, and variations in setting boundaries between actions and inaction, leading to conflict. To define and maintain stability in society, conditions and causes for mutations in culture become an apparatus for ce... Read more

Conflicts and Culture Mutation in Dipo Kalejaiye’s The Chosen Beloved

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Boab Purple Arts

Sep 26, 2025

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Learning Through Entertainment: An Advantage to Children's Theatre (A Focus on Scribbles)

The cradle ofChildren's Theatre can be traced to storytelling art of the early men. In Africa, this form of theatre also featured in diverse cultural ceremonies and celebrations. Entertainment in form of stories were re-enacted for children to instil moral, cultural, history, virtues, values and pre... Read more

Learning Through Entertainment: An Advantage to Children's Theatre (A Focus on Scribbles)

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Boab Purple Arts

Sep 26, 2025

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Improvisation as a Propellant for Creativity in Children's Theatre

The focus of this chapter is Children Theatre. Children Theatre is an aspect of Theatre in Education that is very specialized because of its peculiarities. As an integral part of human existence, Drama is a way of life right from infancy to adulthood. The child learns and lives through imitation of ... Read more

Improvisation as a Propellant for Creativity in Children's Theatre

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Boab Purple Arts

Sep 26, 2025

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Attaining an Ideal Symbiotic Relationship Between Creative Drama And Children's Learning A Dramatist Approach

There is an increasing awareness of the need to adopt learning strategics especially for young learners at the onsetof their education. Consequently, learning at the elementary stage is targeted at an all-round human development to help learners acquire skills, knowledge, values and attitudes. This ... Read more

Attaining an Ideal Symbiotic Relationship Between Creative Drama And Children's Learning A Dramatist Approach

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Boab Purple Arts

Sep 26, 2025

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Tara - Drama

The play opens as a campus variety show. The audience serves as students from the campus. There is a celebrity corner on a part of the stage. A group of dancers come on stage and do a vibrant choreographed dance. There is a lot of excitement in the hall. At the end of the dance, the PRESENTER comes ... Read more

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Boab Purple Arts

Sep 25, 2025

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The Playwright as a Social Commentator: A Focus on Basil Wikina's Resurrection of the Dead

I have written about my own experiences and about what I have seen in others around me. I have been true to all this and have not cheated my generation. I did not attempt to simplify matters and issues for the audience when presenting my plays, though that would have been easier occupation…. My pl... Read more

The Playwright as a Social Commentator: A Focus on Basil Wikina's Resurrection of the Dead

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Boab Purple Arts

Sep 25, 2025

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Nigeria Female Writers and Children's Literature: History, Roles and Contributions

In times past, children's literature was hardly accommodated in literary writings, as it existed and survived mainly on the fringes of adult literature. However, in recent times, there is a paradigm shift, resulting in noticeable tilt to children's Literature. As a fast-developing field of study, ch... Read more

Nigeria Female Writers and Children's Literature: History, Roles and Contributions

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Boab Purple Arts

Sep 25, 2025

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Ebibi Festival: A Critical Appraisal of Performance and Thematic Relevance to African Societies

African festivals provide opportunities for socialisation and communal gathering to promote unity and peaceful co-existence among people of same cultural bias and interest. Ebibi, a festival in Owu-ljebu is in focus as one out of many expressions of cultural heritage among the Yorubas of Western Nig... Read more

Ebibi Festival: A Critical Appraisal of Performance and Thematic Relevance to African Societies

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Boab Purple Arts

Sep 25, 2025

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Training the Trainer: Preparing Teachers for Effective Implementation of Drama in Education as Methodology

Teacher training is a very germane prerequisite for anybody that intends to be a teacher, especially currently that professionalism in this field is the order of the day. Since the abolition of the Grade I and II, National Certificate of Education (NCE) has become the minimum requirement in teaching... Read more

Training the Trainer: Preparing Teachers for Effective Implementation of Drama in Education as Methodology

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Boab Purple Arts

Sep 25, 2025

Research

Communication, Creative Arts and Early Learning

Communication is a very vital aspect of human existence. It is the
most complex form of human behaviour, communication sharply
distinguishes us from other members of animal kingdom. It allows for
the sharing of ideas and feelings which in actual fact is the basis of all
human contact... Read more

Communication, Creative Arts and Early Learning

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Boab Purple Arts

Sep 25, 2025

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Reflections on Children's Theatre Performances: Focus on Department of Theatre Arts, Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education (AOCOED), Oto/Ijanikin, Lagos

Children's Theatre is a term used to describe formal productions for children audience with emphasis on entertainment. Children's Theatre is a developmentalprocess for child's growth revolving around all aspects that the child willlater be exposed to. It further establishes itas fundamental preparat... Read more

Reflections on Children's Theatre Performances: Focus on Department of Theatre Arts, Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education (AOCOED), Oto/Ijanikin, Lagos

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Boab Purple Arts

Sep 25, 2025

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Leadership in Corruption and Corrupt Leadership: Revisiting Who's Afraid of Solarin by Femi Osofisan

Africa is one of the continents in the world that have leadership
challenges from colonial masters to military dictators, although
presently, democracy is being embraced by almost all African
states. Interestingly, lots of aspersions have been cast by scholars
attributing Africa's un... Read more

Leadership in Corruption and Corrupt Leadership: Revisiting Who's Afraid of Solarin by Femi Osofisan

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Boab Purple Arts

Sep 25, 2025

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Reinstating Extinct Cultural Practices: A Study of Olobonbori

Culture is the holistic way of life of a group of people in a socie
Culture is dynamic and peculiar to groups of people who share commo
interests and identity in, politics, religion, language, food, dance, muse
dressing, celebrations and art in generals. It is therefore not surpris
t... Read more

Reinstating Extinct Cultural Practices: A Study of Olobonbori

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Boab Purple Arts

Sep 24, 2025

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Design in Àwòrán Òwe: An Enhanced Artistic Engagement for Young Audience on Social Media

Innovations in the digital field have transformed the educational field, especially
among children whose learning habits are becoming affected by social networking
sites like Instagram, YouTube, and WhatsApp. In this regard, the issue of conservation
of indigenous knowledge has taken ... Read more

Design in Àwòrán Òwe: An Enhanced Artistic Engagement for Young Audience on Social Media

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Boab Purple Arts

Aug 24, 2024

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Writing Woman Anthology: Drama and Scholarly Essays

Contributor's Bio Notes

Bunmi Adedina is a Senior Lecturer and drama teacher in the Department of Theatre and Performing Arts, Lagos state University of Education, Oto/Ijanikin, (formerly Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education, Lagos State). Her teaching experience spans ove... Read more

Writing Woman Anthology: Drama and Scholarly Essays

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Boab Purple Arts

Aug 24, 2024

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Students on Stage: Narratives and Dynamics of School Performance

This study explores the multifaceted dynamics of school performances. It advocates the role of dramatic experiences particularly in developing communication skills, talent discovery, and encouraging creativity among students for self-discovery, self-expression, and self-esteem. the study examin... Read more

Students on Stage: Narratives and Dynamics of School Performance

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Boab Purple Arts

Aug 24, 2024

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Popular Culture: Trending Slangs Among Student Youths in Lagos State Tertiary Institutions

Nigerian youths have constantly evolved new ideas, ideologies and conventions specifically with the emergence of globalisation and digitalisation. Exposure to media objects and technology are undeniably potent influences and sources of popular culture among youths. The emergence of popular culture d... Read more

Popular Culture: Trending Slangs Among Student Youths in Lagos State Tertiary Institutions

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Boab Purple Arts

Aug 24, 2024

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Fostering Creativity in Children Learning: Teachers as Catalysts of Innovation

The global environment is dramatically changing especially with the increasing demands and torrents of changes in the 21st Century. There is a need to specifically nurture Children's creativity as a process to redirect and prepare them for the ever-evolving society. This paper will explore the role ... Read more

Fostering Creativity in Children Learning: Teachers as Catalysts of Innovation

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Boab Purple Arts

Apr 9, 2024

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Drama in Education: Stimulating Learning Preparedness among Primary School Pupils

For several decades, researchers in education have continually sought for ways of improving input and output for adequate productivity in the industry. This move has given rise to a lot of experiments resulting in innovations and explorations of new creative ideas to enhance teaching and learning. T... Read more

Drama in Education: Stimulating Learning Preparedness among Primary School Pupils

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Boab Purple Arts

Mar 27, 2024

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The Playwright as a Satirist in Selected Plays of Ola Rotimi

Satire was a popular genre in Classical times leading to the government, nobles, the Church,
and even the Pope becoming targets of ridicule and criticism without regard to their status or
sanctity. The Greeks and Romans extensively used it as a weapon of attack in their respective
soc... Read more

The Playwright as a Satirist in Selected Plays of Ola Rotimi

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Boab Purple Arts

Feb 6, 2024

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Grooming Teachers in Training for the Practice of Children�s Theatre in a Digital Age

Theatre Arts is one of the many fields of study that have maintained relevance to life and living by finding relevance in other fields such as engineering, technology, psychology, sociology, medicine (therapy) education, and others. The purpose of this study is to prepare Theatre Arts student teache... Read more

Grooming Teachers in Training for the Practice of Children�s Theatre in a Digital Age

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Boab Purple Arts

Jan 18, 2024

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Nigeria Female Writers and Children�s Literature: History, Roles and Contributions

Abstract
In times past, children's literature was hardly accommodated in literary writings, as it existed and survived mainly on the fringes of adult literature. However, in recent times, there is a paradigm shift, resulting in a noticeable tilt to children's literature. As a fast-developing fi... Read more

Nigeria Female Writers and Children�s Literature: History, Roles and Contributions

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Boab Purple Arts

Jan 18, 2024

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The Women of Osofisan: Beyond Fiction

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Women in the African past, contrary to being domesticated were not only achievers in their own right but also pillars of society. A voyage into African and especially Nigerian history gives a picture of outstanding women who contributed to trade and governance in their various com... Read more

The Women of Osofisan: Beyond Fiction

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Boab Purple Arts

Jan 6, 2024

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Help for the Girl-Child: Making a Difference through Participatory Theatre for Development

Theatre has been used as a tool for development in education, as communication tool, therapy, behavioural change medium as well as a participatory and exploratory tool in the process of human and societal development. The integration of participatory communication in theatre for development (TfD) ta... Read more

Help for the Girl-Child: Making a Difference through Participatory Theatre for Development

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Boab Purple Arts

Jan 6, 2024

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Facilitating Students� Theatre Productions During a Pandemic

The surge of Covid-19 pandemic came unexpectedly that it caught most nations unaware. Not only did the health and wellbeing of the populace become a concern, preventing the spread of the deadly virus was paramount. Subsequently, restrictions were placed on physical contacts, human movements and inte... Read more

Facilitating Students� Theatre Productions During a Pandemic

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Boab Purple Arts

Jan 6, 2024

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Embracing Music Intervention as Stimulus for Children's Learning.

Music is an integral part of human lives. Its origin could be traced to human speech, communication, mime, singing and environmental sounds which include ocean waves, hammer, anvil and wind just to mention a few. These sounds are produced from animate and inanimate objects. Music is the combina... Read more

Embracing Music Intervention as Stimulus for Children's Learning.

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Boab Purple Arts

Jan 6, 2024

Research

Drama in Education: Stimulating Learning Preparedness among Primary School Pupils

For several decades, researchers in education have continually sought for ways of improving input and output for adequate productivity in the industry. This move has given rise to a lot of experiments resulting in innovations and explorations of new creative ideas to enhance teaching and learning. ... Read more

Drama in Education: Stimulating Learning Preparedness among Primary School Pupils

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