Responding to: Drama: A Teaching Tool for Culturally Diverse
Children With Behavior Disorders Nathaniel Bynum and James
Jackson Drama: A Teaching Tool for Culturally Diverse Children
With Behavior Disorders Nathaniel Bynum and James Jackson This
article served to offer me a different perspective on the uses
of drama with a different population of children. Culturally
diverse children, while perhaps not afflicted with ASD, are
often represented at a higher than average rate in classrooms
for students with emotional behavioral disorders. This is
possibly because the schools many culturally diverse children
attend place little emphasis on “providing these children with
information on how they can integrate the values of their
culture with those of the schools,” leaving these children with
a heightened sense of isolation and discomfort. (Bynum &
Jackson, 2012) The authors cite as a hopeful practice the
growing use of drama experiences and training in order to
“enhance educational programming and help children und