Education and dramatic ar

• Main Author: Hornbroo, David (Author)
• Format: Unknown
• Language: English
• Published: New Yor Routledg 1998; London
• Edition: 2nd ed
• Subjects: Theater > Study and teaching (Secondary) > Great Britain; Drama in education > Great Britain
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• Physical Description: xi, 180 pages 25 cm
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. 172-177) and index
• ISBN: 0415168848 (hbk); 0415168856 (pbk.)

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.