Dramatic Interactions in Education: Vygotskian and Sociocultural Approaches to Drama, Education and Research - Hardcover

Bloomsbury

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1472576896 ISBN 13: 9781472576897

Publisher: Bloombury, 2014

Synopsis

Dramatic Interactions in Education draws together contemporary sociocultural research across drama and educational contents to draw out implications for researchers and practitioners both within and outside the field. Drama is a field for which human interactions, experience, emotional expression, and attitude are central, with those in non-arts fields discovering that understandings emerging from drama education can provide models and means for examining the affective and relational domains which are essential for understanding learning processes. In addition to this, those in the realm of drama education and applied theatre are realising that sociocultural and historical-cultural approaches can usefully inform their research and practice. Leading international theorists and researchers from across the UK, Europe, USA and Australia combine theoretical discussions, research methodologies, accounts of research and applications in classroom and learning contexts, as they explore concepts from Vygotsky's foundational work and interrogate key concepts such as perezhivanie (or the emotional, lived experience), development of self, zone of proximal development.

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About the Author

Susan Davis is Senior Lecturer at Central Queensland University, Australia, and a writer and researcher with extensive experience in drama, theatre and education. Beth Ferholt is Assistant Professor of Education in Early Childhood and Art at Brooklyn College, City University of New York, USA. Hannah Grainger Clemson is Course Tutor for the Drama and Theatre Education MA at the University of Warwick, UK. Satu-Mari Jansson is a theatre-based trainer, facilitator, consultant and service designer, and researcher at the Centre for Activity Theory and Development Work Research at the University of Helsinki, Finland Ana Marjanovic-Shane is Associate Professor of Education at Chestnut Hill College, Philadelphia, USA.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloombury
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1472576896
• ISBN 13: 9781472576897
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288