Drama and Curriculum A Giant at the Door /

• Main Authors: O’Toole, John (Author), Stinson, Madonna (Author), Moore, Tiina (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.
• Series: Landscapes: the Arts, Aesthetics, and Education ; 6
• Subjects: Education.; Art education.; Curriculums (Courses of study).; Education > Curricula.; Arts Education.; Curriculum Studies.

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, in...

Table of Contents:

• Background and Context
• Strange Bedfellows: Drama and Education
• Curriculum: The House that Jack Built
• Theories and Practices
• Drama and Language
• Drama for Development and Expression
• Drama as Pedagogy
• Civil Wars
• The Three Pillars of Art
• Drama in Action in Contemporary Curriculum
• Doorway Politics: Cracking an Education System
• Drama as Macro-Curriculum: Peeking Behind the Closed Doors of Drama Syllabus Development
• The History Centre: A Micro-Curriculum
• Pasts, Present and Futures: Which Door Next?.