Written by drama practitioners/theorists, this book critically investigates the long, complex and ambivalent shared history of drama (and theatre) and education, formal and informal. The broad sweep takes in key historical and contemporary figures and their influences on drama education practice, including the‘speech and drama’ movement, drama- and theatre-in-education, drama therapy and psychodrama, and emergent forms such as Applied Theatre. In its journey through play in the early years to the play on the stage, the book identifies andexplains drama’s four paradigms of purpose: for language, for development, aspedagogy and as art-form. It shows how these interweave in highly intricate ways to provide different kinds of learning for different contexts, and how they sometimes become tangled in practice and theory, in the constant efforts of drama and theatre practitioners to get drama established in the curriculum, and keep it there. The only one to provide a global view of the development of drama curriculum The only text that links the fields of drama, curriculum, drama and language learning, and applied theatre Teases out comprehensively and authoritatively the significant influences and constraints in the history of drama and schooling Provides important case studies of 1) systemic curriculum development; 2) the enacted curriculum Analyses thoroughly the internecine connections and resolves the key battles and conflicts within the field INDICE: Acknowledgments. Preface by John O’Toole.- Part One – Background and context. One – Strange bedfellows: drama and education by John O’Toole. Two– Curriculum: the house that Jack built by John O’Toole and Madonna Stinson.-Part Two – Theories and practices. Three – Drama and language by John O’Tooleand Madonna Stinson. Four – Drama for development and expression by John O’Toole. Five – Drama as pedagogy by John O’Toole. Six – Civil wars by John O’Toole. Seven – The three pillars of art by John O’Toole.- Part Three – Drama in action in contemporary curriculum. Eight – Doorway politics: cracking an education system by John O’Toole and Madonna Stinson. Nine – Drama as macro-curriculum: peeking behind the closed doors of drama syllabus development by Madonna Stinson. Ten – The History Centre: a micro-curriculum by Tiina Moore. Eleven – Pasts, present and futures: which door next? by John O’Toole and Madonna Stinson.
- ISBN: 978-1-4020-9369-2
- Editorial: Springer
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 220
- Fecha Publicación: 01/01/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés