Anthony Jackson

Theatre, education and the making of meanings

Art or instrument?

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Produktbeschreibung

The book is a study of theatre's educational role in the 20th and the first years of the 21st centuries. It examines the variety of ways the theatre's educational potential has been harnessed and theorised by the claims made for its value and the tension between theatre as education and theatre as 'art'.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 488g
• ISBN-13: 9780719065439
• ISBN-10: 0719065437
• Artikelnr.: 22897108

Autorenporträt

Anthony Jackson is Professor of Educational Theatre at the University of Manchester

Inhaltsangabe

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS, DIAGRAMS AND TABLES INTRODUCTION Chapter 1. Theatre,
Learning and the Aesthetic Dimension. Preliminary perspectivesEARLY
WARNINGS: THEATRE TO 1947 Chapter 2. Prelude: New Drama, new audiences
Chapter 3. Agitating the audience: Theatre, propaganda and education:
Radical n the 1930s Chapter 4. Theatre and the challenge of Science,
1936-37 POST-WAR: THEATRE, LEARNING & PARTICIPATION Chapter 5.
Participatory Theatre: Audience participation and aesthetic distance
Chapter 6. Participatory Theatre: Positioning the audience - framing the
dramaChapter 7. Creative Gaps: the Didactic and the Dialogic Chapter 8.
Targets and Outcomes - and Playfulness Chapter 9. Inter-acting with the
Past AFTERWORD BIBLIOGRAPHY & OTHER SOURCES