Teaching Drama 11-18

by Nicholson, Helen

• ISBN13: 9780826448057
• ISBN10: 0826448054
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-07-26
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

Drama teachers often thrive on shared experience and the imaginative exchange of ideas and perspectives. Yet books that provide such access are, strangely, hard to find. Teaching Drama 11-18 is an inspiring, comprehensive, and vibrant guide to effective and liberating practice in this subject.

Table of Contents

The Contributors	vii
Acknowledgements	ix
Introduction: Dramatic Practices and Pedagogic Principles	1	(12)
Helen Nicholson
Part One: Teaching Drama 11--14	13	(48)
Walking in Another Person's Shoes: Storytelling and Role-play	16	(10)
Jennifer Simons
Physical Theatre	26	(11)
Shane Irwin
Reading and Writing Plays in an Electronic Classroom	37	(14)
Denise Margetts
`You Mean I Have to Learn All This?': Performing Scripted Plays	51	(10)
Bryony Williamson
Part Two: Teaching Drama 14--16	61	(56)
`So Whose Idea was That, Then?': Devising Drama	64	(13)
Andy Kempe
`I See a Voice': Visual Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare	77	(12)
Merrilyn Evans
Authoring our Identities: Dramatic Narratives that Write the Self	89	(12)
Bruce Woolding
Reading Dramatic Texts in the Electronic Age: Modes of Response	101	(16)
Jane M. Gangi
Robert D. Taylor
Part Three: Teaching Drama 16--18	117	(43)
Integrating Practice: The Practitioner and the Dramatic Text	119	(13)
Melissa Jones
The Proof of the Pudding: Teaching Theatre Practitioners	132	(12)
Steve Waters
Languages of the Stage: A Critical Framework for Analysing and Creating Performance	144	(16)
Sharon Grady
Conclusion: Changing Cultural Landscapes	160	(7)
Helen Nicholson
Bibliography	167	(6)
Index	173