Puppeteers of America Member Carol Sterling has devoted her life’s work to advocate for the importance of the arts in education. Recently Carol put together a wonderful presentation on educational puppetry as part of the Tolosa University summer curriculum sponsored by UNIMA-Spain in July 2011. Our sister puppetry organization, UNIMA-USA, has posted a report about this […]
Finger Plays For Optimum Brain Development In The Young Child
In 2004 Amy Wallace and Larisa Mishina presented their thesis, “Relations between the Use of Puppetry in the Classroom, Student Attention and Student Involvement.” The thesis highlighted the benefits of puppetry in the classroom, including such benefits as increased attention span and higher retention of information. Since then, very little has been researched on puppetry […]