Gavin Bolton: The Essential Writings
Gavin Bolton has been a leading figure in Drama in Education for over 40 years. His many publications cover the whole area of young people’s educational drama including modes of involvement in drama, drama as an art form, the role of emotion, the role of the teacher, planning and assessment, structuring drama lessons, drama’s place in the curriculum, the history of drama over the past 100 years and its key importance in children’s education today.

His work is of immediate interest and relevance to today’s drama teachers, student teachers, lecturers and everyone seriously interested in the education of young people. He is a seminal figure internationally in the field of drama education and this selection of his key writings provides an insight into all major areas of his theory and practice. There are signs that teachers in the UK are once again being urged to be creative. This will be an essential aid in that process of regeneration.
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Gavin Bolton: The Essential Writings
Gavin Bolton has been a leading figure in Drama in Education for over 40 years. His many publications cover the whole area of young people’s educational drama including modes of involvement in drama, drama as an art form, the role of emotion, the role of the teacher, planning and assessment, structuring drama lessons, drama’s place in the curriculum, the history of drama over the past 100 years and its key importance in children’s education today.

His work is of immediate interest and relevance to today’s drama teachers, student teachers, lecturers and everyone seriously interested in the education of young people. He is a seminal figure internationally in the field of drama education and this selection of his key writings provides an insight into all major areas of his theory and practice. There are signs that teachers in the UK are once again being urged to be creative. This will be an essential aid in that process of regeneration.
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Gavin Bolton: The Essential Writings

Gavin Bolton: The Essential Writings

Gavin Bolton: The Essential Writings

Gavin Bolton: The Essential Writings

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Gavin Bolton has been a leading figure in Drama in Education for over 40 years. His many publications cover the whole area of young people’s educational drama including modes of involvement in drama, drama as an art form, the role of emotion, the role of the teacher, planning and assessment, structuring drama lessons, drama’s place in the curriculum, the history of drama over the past 100 years and its key importance in children’s education today.

His work is of immediate interest and relevance to today’s drama teachers, student teachers, lecturers and everyone seriously interested in the education of young people. He is a seminal figure internationally in the field of drama education and this selection of his key writings provides an insight into all major areas of his theory and practice. There are signs that teachers in the UK are once again being urged to be creative. This will be an essential aid in that process of regeneration.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781858564708
Publisher: Stylus Publishing, LLC
Publication date: 11/01/2010
Pages: 208
Product dimensions: 6.70(w) x 9.50(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

David Davis is Professor of Drama in Education at Birmingham City University. His many publications include Edward Bond and the Dramatic Child.

Table of Contents

Foreword Cecily O'Neill ix

Introduction David Davis xiii

Key writings on the nature of classroom drama

from Acting in classroom drama

Re-interpretations of Dorothy Heathcote's 'living through' drama (edited) 3

Towards a conceptual framework for classroom acting behaviour 19

from New perspectives on classroom drama

Aims and objectives 45

Assessment 63

Constraint 81

from Drama as education

Protection 87

from Gavin Bolton: selected writings

Drama and meaning 97

Drama in education-a re-appraisal 103

In defence of drama in education

Drama in education: learning medium or arts process? 121

Education and dramatic art: a personal review 135

Piss on his face 143

Have a heart! 149

Although 153

Finally

It's all theatre 163

Afterword Gavin Bolton 173

References 175

Gavin Bolton, an incomplete bibliography for future researchers, in place of an archive 179

Index 183

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