THE DRAMATIZATION IN THE CLASSROOM, IN A CONTEXT OF HIGHER EDUCATION, AS A RESOURCE TO PROMOTE SOCIAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL, EDUCATIONAL AND COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCES IN THE STUDENTS

While the Dramatization is still a rarely used resource in the Classroom, more and more research has provided relevant evidences about the benefits of the same in the teaching-learning process. The Dramatization is an educational tool that helps students develop social skills with a psychological support in their interpersonal relationships, promotes their self-esteem, and lets them learn to trust in themselves and to know better their skills and their weak points. Additionally, it helps students to carry out teamwork, wherein the result does not depend on the sum of individual contributions, but rather on a work of coordination, cooperation between the team members, trust, and mutual commitment. The teacher here plays a secondary role, and the students become the protagonists, no longer seeing themselves as receptors of content, but rather playing an active part in the teaching-learning process. Furthermore, through the dramatization, students improve their emotional intelligence; they learn to lose stage fright, to empathize with the characters they play, to tolerate different points of view and to discuss, at the same time, their own opinions. Finally, this educational resource is essential for the improvement of creativity and imagination, basic tools for the development of each individual and crucial for current and teachers who want to motivate and attract students to their subjects.