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Title Theatre and learning / edited by Art Babayants and Heather Fitzsimmons Frey
Published Newcastle-upon-Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015

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Description 1 online resource (255 pages)
Contents Part I. Reflecting -- Part II. Risking -- Part III. Re-imagining
Summary As early as Plato, theorists acknowledged the power of theatre as a way of teaching young minds. Similarly, starting with Plato, philosophers occasionally adopted an anti-theatrical stance, worried by the "dangers" theatre posed to society. The relationships between learning and theatre have never been seen as straightforward, obvious, or without contradictions. This volume investigates the complexity of the intersection of theatre and learning, addressing both the theoretical and practical aspects of it. In three sections-Reflecting, Risking, and Re-imagining-theatre researchers, education sc
Subject Drama in education.
Education in the theater.
Theatre studies.
Society & culture: general.
Learning.
EDUCATION -- Administration -- General.
EDUCATION -- Organizations & Institutions.
Drama in education
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Babayants, Art, 1976- editor.
Fitzsimmons Frey, Heather, editor
ISBN 9781443882057
1443882054