Importance of Drama in Pre-school Education

In this study, the main aim was to draw attention to the importance of the pre-school drama and drama-based education. In today's educational system the first step is the pre-school education; Taking into account of Children's developmental characteristics, individual differences and abilities, aiming to provide healthy form of physical, emotional, linguistic, social and mental aspects of development, positive personality, and reveal the creative aspects, and providing this education we ensure that child has the self confidence. Using drama in the educational step is the most important way of expressing the persons feeling in an healthy manner; to improve the child's imagination, to enable child to think and act independent, to improve the child's social awareness and cooperative awareness. At this point pre-school drama education plays a important role. Therefore the importance of pre-school drama must be considered to enable children to benefit from it. In this study, the relevant literature was searched and differences between the pre-school educations was considered.