ABSTRACT
There is a wide range of activities that can be clustered under the umbrella term of drama education. Over recent years, many countries have privileged the STEM curriculum of science, technology, engineering and mathematics. The nature of process drama provides the means by which students can learn about drama and also through drama about other things because it is both an art form and a pedagogic process. Moreover, process drama is fundamentally a whole group drama, improvised in nature, in which the students serve as co-creators of the dramatic experience as well as the audience for their own work. The key to understanding the mechanism for this type of drama for learning is the recognition of the human capacity to suspend disbelief and for the moment to accept the circumstances of a fiction as 'real' while simultaneously perceiving it for the fiction that it is.
