Drama and Curriculum [electronic resource] : A Giant at the Door /
O'Toole, John.author.
Stinson, Madonna.author.
Moore, Tiina.author.
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 and explains drama's four paradigms of purpose: for language, for development, as pedagogy 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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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?.
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 and explains drama's four paradigms of purpose: for language, for development, as pedagogy 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.
Art education.
Curriculums (Courses of study).
Education-Curricula.
Creativity and Arts Education.
Curriculum Studies.


Landscapes: the Arts, Aesthetics, and Education