Book Cover -- Title -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- THE PLOT: THE RISE OF DRAMA-IN-EDUCATION -- THE PLAYERS: WITNESS AND REVELATION -- THE SETTING: EVENTS ON THE PUBLIC STAGE -- THE DENOUEMENT: REHEARSING THE PHANTOM REVOLUTION -- THE OMNIPOTENT SELF -- HAPPENING ON THE AESTHETIC -- SIGNIFICANT KNOWING -- CULTURE AND POWER -- PRACTICAL AESTHETICS AND DRAMATIC ART -- THE DRAMATISED SOCIETY -- WHAT SHALL WE DO AND HOW SHALL WE LIVE? -- THE DRAMA CURRICULUM -- APPENDIX 1 -- APPENDIX 2 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.