The Routledge Companion to Drama in Education

The Routledge Companion to Drama in Education is a comprehensive reference guide to this unique performance discipline, focusing on its process-oriented theatrical techniques, engagement of a broad spectrum of learners, its historical roots of as a field of inquiry and its transdisciplinary pedagogical practices.

Part I: Boundaries and Contours; 1 Kelly Freebody- A personal genealogy of the idea of drama education as a force for change; 2 Stig A. Eriksson- Distancing as Topos in Process Drama; 3 Mindy R. Carter- Pedagogical assemblages exploring social justice issues through drama education; 4 Eva Hallgren- Drama in education and the value of process; 5 Juliana Saxton & Carole Miller- "Creating conditions for the emergence of the as-yet-unimagined": Drama in education as artistic pedagogy; 6 John O'Toole- Whose Enlightened Pedagogy? a historical mini-tour of the educating process of drama.; 7 Moema Gregorzewski- Reimagining Drama in Education: Towards a Postdramatic Pedagogy; 8 Adam Cziboly, Mette Bøe Lyngstad and Sisi Zheng- The influence of the "conventions approach" on the practice of drama in different cultures; 9 Priya Gain and Viv Aitken- In the Spaces for Play: Learning in Mantle of the Expert; 10 Claire Coleman- Critical Process Drama Framework; 11 Brian Edmiston and Iona Towler-Evans- Humanizing Education with Dramatic Inquiry: Dorothy Heathcote's Radical and Transformative Pedagogy; 12 Rachael Jacobs- Assessment in Drama Education; Part II: Methods, Programs, and Partnerships; 13 Christine Hatton - Drama as a pedagogy of connection: using Heathcote's rolling role system to activate the ethical imagination; 14 Branka Bajic Jovanov- Ecological Education of Preschool Children using Process Drama; 15 Anna Lehtonen- Drama for climate change education; 16 Joe Winston- Storytelling theatre and education; 17 Cleo Xiaodi Wang - An Imagined Cultural Identity: Reflections on a Classroom Drama How Wang-fo Was Saved; 18 Pernilla Ahlstrand- Action (re)call in the theatre classroom, Sweden; 19 Sue Bleaken and Viv Aitken- 'Do Something Different...' A teaching inquiry into the use of Mantle of the Expert to support struggling writers.; 20 Larry Swartz- A Dramatic Approach to Teaching Tough Topics: Using Children's Literature and Drama to Explore the Refugee and Migrant Experience; 21 Jennifer Wong- "Freeze!" - building reflective and analytical skills in children through drama; 22 Viviane Juguero- Theatre for children's dialogical specificities; 23 Elizabeth Brendel Horn- Bodies at Play: Body Image and the Young Actor; 24 Dontá McGilvery and Claire K. Redfield- Little Red and the Wolf: Devising with Young People at Eastlake Park; 25 Heidi Schoenenberger- Facilitating Post-Performance Process Drama in an Irish Primary School; 26 Kathryn Dawson- Accessible for All: Drama-Based Pedagogy in an Inclusive Primary School; 27 Robyn Ayles, Heather Fitzsimmons Frey, and Margaret Mykietyshyn- Harnessing the Power of Flight: Devising Responsive Theatre for the Very Young; 28 Samuel Chun Sum Tsang, Chi Ying Lam and Bonnie Yuen Yan Chan- A Comparative Case Study of a DiE-Inspired Music and Theatre Project for Linguistically and Culturally Diverse Pupils in Hong Kong and London; 29 Peter Duffy- Mixed Methods in Drama Education Research: A Project Autopsy; 30 Julie Dunn and Adrianne Jones- Dramatic approaches in the English classroom: Embodied, agentic and aesthetic learning; 31 Eva Österlind- Drama Workshops as Single Events in Higher Education - What can we learn?; 32 Anne Richie G. Balgos- Boal in the Philippine classroom: Using Theatre of the Oppressed in teaching literature; 33 Molly Mattaini- Implementing Universal Design for Learning in Out-of-School Time Drama Education; 34 Cortney McEniry- Trauma-Informed Considerations for Drama in Education with Adults; 35 Joshua Streeter- Humanizing the Curriculum: Exploring the use of Drama Pedagogy in Faculty Development; 36 Rannveig Björk Thorkelsdóttir and Hanna Ólafsdóttir- Dream Stage - Let our dreams come true through the arts; 37 Sarah Dolens-Moon- We Serve Too! A Reflection on Drama and Storytelling with Military Children; 38 Daniel A. Kelin, II- A Dramatic Approach to Appreciating Mythological History; 39 Ava Hunt- Real for Me: Co-Creation Drama Negotiating Safer Sexual Boundaries; 40 Erika Piazzoli- The Elements of Drama in Second Language Education: An Intercultural Perspective; 41 Chipo Marunda-Piki- Formulating a Learning Context using Teacher in Role for Reading Fluency in ESL students; 42 Richard Johnson Sallis and Carol Beck Carter- Drama for cultural and linguistic diversity (CALD): Applying drama with students from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds in Australian educational settings; 43 Jenna Nilson- Outcomes of Using Drama-Based Pedagogy in Language Teaching and Learning; 44 John Nicholas Saunders & Robyn Ann Ewing- 'It Lifts Up Your Imagination': Drama-Rich Pedagogy, Literature and Literacy: The School Drama Program; 45 Eva Göksel - Daring to be Different: Drama as a Tool for Empowering the Teachers of Tomorrow; 46 Fiona McDonagh - Enlivening teachers' co-creating attitude; 47 Ailbhe Curran- Challenging your students, challenging yourself: The golden opportunity of being an in-school drama educator today; 48 Robin Pascoe- Drama Teacher Education - a long-view perspective; 49 Cletus Moyo- Looking Back and Forward: Reflecting on My Facilitation as a Drama in Education Teacher and Facilitator at Lupane State University in Zimbabwe; 50 Elizabeth Anderson- Mei Ling, Mary, and Michaela: Mapping drama teaching journeys; Part III: Futures and Possibilities; 51 Robyn Shenfield and Monica Prendergast- Opening up the field of drama education to performance studies: Tensions and opportunities; 52 David Cameron and Michael Anderson- Evolution, diffusion and disturbance: Drama, education and technology; 53 Adisti Anindita Regar - Designing a Transmedia Theatre Experience for Drama Education; 54 Amy Petersen Jensen and Kris W. Peterson- Digital bodies/live space: How digital technologies might inform gesture, space, place, and the performance of identity in contemporary drama education experiences; 55 Marina Henriques Coutinho- Playing with theatre: there can be a place for childhood in the favela; 56 Matt Omasta- Numbers Count: Quantitative Research in Drama Education; 57 Kristin Hunt- When Crises Should Go To Waste, or How I Learned to Stop Supporting Disaster Capitalism and Love the Classroom