More Broadly Speaking, Much Of Drama Itself Is About Conflict. Offering

More broadly speaking, much of drama itself is about conflict.
Offering creative approaches to conflict resolution is another potential benefit of including drama in the curriculum. O'Toole and Burton point out that drama is the art form which most explicitly mirrors and explicates human conflict. Conflict is part of the basic business of drama, which exists to depict and explore human relationships (2002).
Learning to resolve conflicts is of vital importance throughout life, but particularly during the early developmental years. Lessons assimilated during these years often stay with us through life. Exposure to a range of conflicts, as well as the ways in which those conflicts are resolved, may be an extremely valuable tool for children.
This is not to suggest that implementing drama into the curriculum is the same thing as offering templates in conflict resolution. Not all dramatic conflicts have happy or positive resolutionsin fact, many do not. This is part of the power of drama, and why it impacts people strongly at any age. But by introducing dramatic conflict, teachers can introduce questions about resolution. They can also encourage children to reflect on their own reactions, and to participate in class discussions about ways in which to approach and resolve conflicts in their own lives.

O'Toole and Burton have extensive experience with improvised classroom drama, which includes process drama, forum theatre, and playbuilding. Basing their ideas on years of classroom observation, they believe that what students carry from the classroom into the other arenas of their lives is positively impacted by these experiences including, but not limited to, conflict resolution.
Drama in the curriculum has also been shown to be an important tool in demonstrating points of grammar and punctuation. For example, as Regie Routman points out:
In Readers Theatre, students take a narrative text or part of a text and treat it as or transform it into a script to be read and performed orally for an audience [this] is an effective way for students to learn how conventions such as quotation marks operate in stories. (2000:74)
While not quite as lofty a concept as conflict resolution, this is yet another way in which drama can enhance education. By offering creative ways to assimilate rules of grammar, teachers can literally make learning fun, and not only fun but rewarding: creating and re-creating scripts and texts also gives students a sense of achievement.
It also teaches them how to work as teams, to collaborate in putting presentations together in pairs or in larger groups. Finally, it may also present a real-life opportunity to resolve conflict in a positive way, as through compromise or discussion.
In conclusion, it can be seen that drama can mean different things to different teaching professionals, but that it is agreed that there are certain norms or standards to which it must adhere.