Drama and English Teaching Imagination, Action, and Engagement

by Anderson, Michael; Hughes, John; Manuel, Jacqueline

• ISBN13: 9780195560428
• ISBN10: 0195560426
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-03-01
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

The arts of English and drama are intertwined in performance and on the page. Drama and English Teaching explores the connection between these two disciplines in the contemporary secondary classroom, and examines how teachers can use words and action to encourage imagination, communication and creativity in their students. In addition, the text covers all major developments in drama and English education by drawing from a rich collection of experience, practice and research. Learn to shape innovative research into interactive teaching models

Table of Contents

Preface	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xv
Contributors	p. xvi
Glossary	p. xix
Drama and English Teaching: Imagination, Action and Engagement	p. 1
Process, Dialogue and Performance: The Dramatic Art of English Teaching	p. 13
Invigorating the Teaching of Fiction through Drama	p. 32
Experiencing Theatre in the English Classroom: Analysing Play Scripts and Performances	p. 50
Teaching Shakespeare as Drama	p. 69
Drama and the Teaching of Poetry	p. 88
Narrative, Drama and the English Classroom	p. 104
Drama and Contemporary Picture Books in the Middle Years	p. 121
Drama for Inclusion: A Pedagogy of Hope	p. 136
Reading and Writing Ourselves into the Twenty-first Century	p. 149
Technology, Drama and English Teaching	p. 161
Mediated Performance: Video Production in the English Classroom	p. 175
Process Drama and Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages	p. 193
Assessing Drama in English: A Framework for Practice	p. 213
References	p. 224
Index	p. 241
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