Drama pedagogy is an interdisciplinary field. Its beginnings in Croatia date back to the 17th century, and it has been developing and growing ever since. From an early age, a child should be introduced to some areas of drama education by using drama methods and techniques. The teaching profession is the constantly changing discipline, so it is necessary to learn and to search for some new strategies and ways of acting in order to accomplish better realization of educational practice. The overview of the literature in the field of drama pedagogy and the research conducted on students of the Faculty of Teacher Education in Zagreb are presented in this paper. The research was conducted on students in the 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th years of Early Childhood and Preschool Education and on students in the 4th and 5th year of Teacher Education, with the purpose of doing self-assessment of students' knowledge in the field of drama pedagogy and giving their opinions about implementation of drama education into educational practice. The results have been processed using qualitative and quantitative methods and are presented in forms of graphs and tables. It has been shown that there are differences in students' opinions about the ways of usefulness and the purpose of using drama education in educational practice depending on their study. Although there are many years of work, practice and study ahead of the students, the results have shown that the students acquire the necessary knowledge and skills for conducting drama education during their education, but they are also ready for further training in the field of drama pedagogy.