Drama and Curriculum: A Giant at the Door

ISBN-13: 9781402093692 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 222 str.

John O'Toole; Madonna Stinson; Tiina Moore

Opis

Here s a knocking indeed says the Porter in Shakespeare s Scottish play (Act II, Scene 3) and immediately puts himself into role in order to deal with the demands of such an early call after a late night of drinking and carousal: If a man were porter of hell-gate... . But what roles does the porter of curriculum-gate take on in order to deal with drama s persistent demands for entry? Ah, that depends upon the temperature of the times. We, who have been knocking for what seems to be a very long time, know well that when evaluation and measurement criteriaare demanded as evidence of drama s ef cacy, an examiner stands as gatekeeper. When the educational landscape is in danger of overcrowding, we meet a territorial governor. And how often has the courtesan turned out to be only a tease because the arts are, for a brief moment, in the spotlight for their abilities to foster out-of-the-box thinkers? In this text, we meet these commissionaires and many more. The gatekeeping roles and what they represent are so familiar that they have become cliches to us. We know them by their arguments, ripostes, dismissals, their brief encouragement and lack of follow-up. And we know that behind each one (however rmly they think they keep the keys) is a nancial and political master whose power controls the curriculum building and everything in it."

Spis treści

Acknowledgments Preface by John O’Toole Part One – Background and context Chapter One – Strange bedfellows: drama and education by John O’Toole Chapter Two – Curriculum: the house that Jack built by John O’Toole and Madonna Stinson Part Two – Theories and practices Chapter Three – Drama and language by John O’Toole and Madonna Stinson Chapter Four – Drama for development and expression by John O’Toole Chapter Five – Drama as pedagogy by John O’Toole Chapter Six – Civil wars by John O’Toole Chapter Seven – The three pillars of art by John O’Toole Part Three – Drama in action in contemporary curriculum Chapter Eight – Doorway politics: cracking an education system by John O’Toole and Madonna Stinson Chapter Nine – Drama as macro-curriculum: peeking behind the closed doors of drama syllabus development by Madonna Stinson Chapter Ten – The History Centre: a micro-curriculum by Tiina Moore Chapter Eleven – Pasts, present and futures: which door next? by John O’Toole and Madonna Stinson

Blurb

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.