This text seeks to push the boundaries of learning, using drama to create an impetus for productive learning across the curriculum, from language arts to history, maths and science. Any one thing taught becomes meshed within broad curriculum knowledge and skills.[...]
For over 40 years, Gavin Bolton has been a leading figure in Drama in Education. His publications cover all aspects of young people's educational drama and this selection of his key writings provides an insight into all major areas of his theory and practice. These include: modes of involvement in d[...]
Gavin Bolton och Dorothy Heathcote har under 40 år fungerat som ett dramapedagogiskt radarpar. Hon har varit inspiratören, han uttolkaren som har analyserat och teoretiserat kring hennes nyskapande praktik. Tillsammans har de haft en avgörande betydelse för synen på drama som läroprocess. Bolt[...]
Cecily O'Neill has had a formative impact on the evolution of the creative and dynamic mode of teaching called process drama. Process drama characterises work powered by transformatory outcomes that bring together drama education and theatre practice. Dorothy Heathcote and Gavin Bolton were perceive[...]
The current education climate has brought the development of classroom drama as an art form to a standstill. Practitioners need to make a qualitative leap forward in both theory and practice in order to respond to the cultural demands of the times. By linking the best of the ground-breaking work of[...]