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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.

Constructivism (Education). --- Drama in education. --- Drama --Study and teaching. --- Drama. --- Imagination in children. --- Drama --- Drama in education --- Fine Arts - General --- Art, Architecture & Applied Arts --- Music, Dance, Drama & Film --- Study and teaching --- Education. --- Children --- Education, Primitive --- Education of children --- Human resource development --- Instruction --- Pedagogy --- Schooling --- Students --- Youth --- Creative dramatics (Education) --- Theater in education --- Education --- Art education. --- Curriculums (Courses of study). --- Arts Education. --- Curriculum Studies. --- Curricula. --- Civilization --- Learning and scholarship --- Mental discipline --- Schools --- Teaching --- Training --- Curriculum planning. --- Creativity and Arts Education. --- Curriculum development --- Instructional systems --- Planning --- Curricula --- Design --- Education—Curricula. --- Core curriculum --- Courses of study --- Curricula (Courses of study) --- Curriculums (Courses of study) --- Study, Courses of --- Art --- Art education --- Education, Art --- Art schools --- Analysis, interpretation, appreciation --- Study and teaching.

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This volume offers rare insights into the connection between young audiences and the performing arts. Based on studies of adolescent and post-adolescent audiences, ages 14 to 25, the book examines to what extent they are part of our society’s cultural conversation. It studies how these young people read and understand theatrical performance. It looks at what the educational components in their theatre literacy are, and what they make of the whole social event of theatre. It studies their views on the relationship between what they themselves decide and what others decide for them. The book uses qualitative and quantitative data collected in a six-year study carried out in the three largest Australian States, thirteen major performing arts companies, including the Sydney Opera House, three state theatre companies and three funding organisations. The book’s perspectives are derived from world-wide literature and company practices and its significance and ramifications are international. The book is written to be engaging and accessible to theatre professionals and lay readers interested in theatre, as well as scholars and researchers.

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