Theatre and Education

ISBN-13: 9780230218574 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 104 str.

Helen D Nicholson

Opis

Theatre& Education provides an insight into the energy, passion and values that have inspired the most inventive theatre-makers who work with young people in educational settings. It argues that the aesthetic principles and educational ideals that inform theatre& education drive at the heart of why theatre matters.

Spis treści

Series Editors' Preface.- Foreword; Edward Bond.- Theatre and Childhood Memories.- Debating Theatre& Education.- The Theatre in Educational History.- Activism and Education.- Performance Methodologies and Political Controversies.- Transitions and Tensions.- Beyond Theatre-in-Education.- The Battle for Imagination.- The Process of Imagining.- The Social Imaginary of Place.- Interrogating Place, Representing Identity.- Theatre Education and Creative Industries.- Theatre, Innovation and Education.- Further Reading.- Index.

O autorze

HELEN NICHOLSON is Reader in Drama and Theatre at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK, where she specializes in Applied Drama and Contemporary Theatre. She is editor of the journal RIDE: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance and author of Applied Drama (Palgrave Macmillan 2005).

Blurb

What motivates theatre-makers who work in education? How can theatre respond to young people's experiences of living in a globalised world?

Theatre& Education provides an insight into the energy, passion and values that have inspired the most inventive theatre-makers who work with young people in educational settings. It charts early debates that motivated twentieth-century radical theatre-makers to work with young people, and offers an analysis of contemporary practices. It argues that the aesthetic principles and educational ideals that inform theatre and education drive at the heart of why theatre matters.
 
Foreword by Edward Bond