Education and Dramatic Art

David Hornbrook

ISBN 10: 0415168856 / ISBN 13: 9780415168854

Editore: Routledge, 1997

nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - In this edition of his classic critique of drama education in schools, David Hornbrook brings the argument up-to-date and locates his proposals for a curriculum based on the making, performing and appraisal of dramas securely in the evolving culture of schools. 'Education and Dramatic Art' critiques the often-muddy idealism that pervades drama productions in schools and the teaching of dramatic texts. In its paradoxical neglect of the customs and practices of the theatre, he argues, this aesthetically impoverished vision has kept, from the students it professed to empower, the very knowledge and understanding which would have allowed them to take command of their subject. In its place, Hornbrook offers a clear and definitive pedagogy of drama that promises to put the study of dramatic art back at the center of literary training. Codice articolo 9780415168854

Riassunto:

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.

Informazioni sull'autore: Hornbrook, David

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Titolo: Education and Dramatic Art
Casa editrice: Routledge
Data di pubblicazione: 1997
Legatura: Taschenbuch
Condizione: Neu
Edizione: seconda edizione