Overview

This collection of essays from many of the world's preeminent drama education practitioners captures the challenges and struggles of teaching with honesty, humor, openness, and integrity. Collectively the authors possess some two hundred years of shared experience in the field, and each essay investigates the mistakes of best-intentions, the lack of awareness, and the omissions that pock all of our careers. The authors ask, and answer quite honestly, a series of difficult and reflexive questions: What obscured our understanding of our students' needs in a particular moment? What drove our professional expectations? And how has our practice changed as a result of those experiences? Modeled on reflective practice, this book will be an essential, everyday guide to the challenges of drama education.

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Author:   Peter Duffy (University of South Carolina, USA)
Publisher:   Intellect
Imprint:   Intellect Books
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.472kg
ISBN:  

9781783204731

ISBN 10:   1783204737
Pages:   290
Publication Date:   15 July 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Foreword  Introduction  Part One: Hoops of My Making Chapter 1: “Chicken Merry, Hawk deh near”: A Letter of Apology – Brian S. Heap Chapter 2: The Vicious Circle: A Study in Stupidity – Peter Duffy Chapter 3: Teaching in Role: Just Another Name is Never Enough – Pamela Bowell Chapter 4: Storying the Dramas of Teaching Drama – Christine Hatton Chapter 5: Giant Mistakes – Patrice Baldwin Chapter 6: “A Lord of the Flies Moment”: The Consequences of Wrong Gaming Directions – Johnny Saldaña Chapter 7: Teaching by Terror: Ordeal, Ego and Education – John O’Toole Part Two: Assumptions and Expectations: Failing Better Chapter 8: Kindling Fires and Facing Giants: Learning About Drama from Children with Special Needs – Robert Colby Chapter 9: An Alaskan Education: From Service to Sustainability – Kathryn Dawson Chapter 10: What Was I Thinking: Why Am I Thinking As I Do? – Gustave J. Weltsek Chapter 11: Encountering the Unexpected and Extending the Horizons of Expectation: An Autoethnographic Exploration of Developing Teaching Practice – Michael Anderson Chapter 12: Democracy Over-Ruled, Or How to Deny Young Children’s Agency and Voice Through Drama! – Julie Dunn Chapter 13: What You Don’t Know CAN Hurt You – Christina Marín Chapter 14: “Texting” in the Drama Classroom: Pedagogical Adjustments to Unfamiliar Cultures from a Guest Artist Perspective – Allison Manville Metz Chapter 15: The Day that Shrek Was Almost Rescued: Doing Process Drama with Children with an Autism Spectrum Disorder – Carmel O’Sullivan Chapter 16: Failing Better – Juliana Saxton Afterword: Looking Back to See Ahead – David Booth

Reviews

'The book's deliberate rebuttal of the happy endings that dominate the literature makes it a significant addition to both drama education and the field of reflective practice. It offers examples of how reflection can be structured and where these practitioners turned for guidance, making it a key resource for students and teachers alike.' -- Kate Lee, Applied Theatre Research

Author Information

Peter Duffy (Ed.D.) is Head of the Master of Arts in Teaching Program in Theatre Education at the University of South Carolina.

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