Drama as a compulsory course in education faculties

The purpose of this study was to investigate whether there is a need to programme drama as a compulsory course in education faculties. For this purpose, four fields of teaching: English Language Teaching; Primary School Teaching; Pre school Teaching; and Mathematics Teaching were chosen. Data were collected from these fields by means of interviews.In addition, the academicians from the education faculties were interviewed. The data gathered from the interviews were analysed and compared with the findings of the interviews with the academicians. The points where the teachers, students and academicians became similar and became different were analysed as meaningful points. This study has two major results. The first result of this study is the need to programme drama as a compulsory course in education faculties. Participation in drama process leads to personel development and this is the second major result of this study.