Education and Dramatic Art - Softcover

Hornbrook, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415168856 ISBN 13: 9780415168854

Publisher: Routledge, 1997

Synopsis

To this day, Education and Dramatic Art remains the only fully worked critique of drama education in schools. Provocative and iconoclastic, this new edition brings the argument up-to-date and locates the author's proposals for a curriculum based on the making, performing and appraisal of dramas securely in the evolving culture of schools.
The first section of the book traces the origins and fortunes of drama in schools in the context of changing political times and argues that by neglecting the customs and practices of the theatre, drama-in-education has often kept from the students it professes to empower, the very knowledge and understanding necessary for them to take command of their subject.
Part two examines the developmental and pedagogic claims of drama-in-education. Theories of knowledge and meaning and assumptions about schools drama's power to establish a moral and social agenda, are all called to account.
Finally, Education and Dramatic Art proposes a multiculturally-based, theoretical structure for the teaching of drama which pulls the theatre and the classroom together and offers teachers the foundation for a broad and balanced drama curriculum with its own distinctive body of knowledge and skills.

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Education and Dramatic Art Critically examines the origins and development of drama. This new edition brings the argument up to date and takes account of ten years of political and educational change in its proposal for an alternative educational agenda. Full description

Synopsis:

Education and Dramatic Art critically examines the origins and development of the drama in education movement. This new edition brings the argument up to date and takes account of ten years of political and educational change in its proposals for an alternative educational agenda. The first section of the book traces the origins and developments of drama in schools in the context of changing political times. The claims of prominent practitioners are examined and the responses of the drama in education movement to the slow erosion of the principles of progressive education are analysed. Part two examines the developmental and pedagogic claims of drama in education. Theories of knowledge and meaning, claims about authenticity, and assumptions about school drama's supposed radicalism, are all called to account. The final part shows how drama education can escape from the narrowly focused classroom methodologies of the past to stand alongside the other arts as a fully fledged curriculum subject with its own, distinctive body of skills, knowledge and understanding.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0415168856
• ISBN 13: 9780415168854
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 196