This unit is an introduction to drama learning in the early childhood setting.  Drama education is a process that actively engages pre-service teachers in experiential learning.  It involves spontaneous dramatic play, activities, and dramatisations arising from pre-service teachers' imaginations and experiences.  Drama education reflects pre-service teachers' daily lives as they connect with others, experience life-like situations, make choices, and reflect upon these choices in a safe and nurturing environment.  This unit covers drama as a learning process addressing drama as a vehicle for physical, intellectual, social and emotional development of children.  The relationship between motivation and management and knowledge of arts practice is explored through the drama process.