The Drama Classroom: Action, Reflection, TransformationHow can teachers incorporate drama into the curriculum? What drama activities are especially successful? How do teachers know when students are learning in, through and about drama? Teachers who are new to drama, or those wishing to refresh their knowledge and ideas, should find practical answers and guidance in this text. The book introduces the work of Cecily O'Neill to demonstrate the entry points to drama lessons, the pre-texts, and how educators need to introduce lessons with challenging material. He then uses the work of David Booth to highlight one aspect of drama - storydrama - and how it can be used as an effective learning medium across the curriculum. |
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Unfortunately such words, theory and practice, led to unhealthy divisions between those who thought or wrote about drama compared with those who did and practised drama. The thinkers couldn't practise, and the practitioners weren't ...
Unfortunately such words, theory and practice, led to unhealthy divisions between those who thought or wrote about drama compared with those who did and practised drama. The thinkers couldn't practise, and the practitioners weren't ...
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So I thought I'd better go and get some sugar from my neighbour. So I left the house and went to my next door neighbour's home. Now this neighbour was a pig, and he wasn't real bright either. He had built his whole house of straw.
So I thought I'd better go and get some sugar from my neighbour. So I left the house and went to my next door neighbour's home. Now this neighbour was a pig, and he wasn't real bright either. He had built his whole house of straw.
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Contents
Getting started with good pretexts | 23 |
storydrama and storying across | 44 |
Designing drama curriculum | 74 |
Historical perspectives on drama praxis | 95 |
Resources and further reading | 133 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Drama Classroom: Action, Reflection, Transformation |
| Author | Philip Taylor |
| Publisher | Routledge, 2004 |
| ISBN | 1135710449, 9781135710446 |
| Length | 152 pages |
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