Drama and Curriculum A Giant at the Door
Written by drama practitioners/theorists, this book critically investigates the long, complex and ambivalent shared history of drama (and theatre) and education, formal and informal. The broad sweep takes in key historical and contemporary figures and the
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Landscapes: The Arts, Aesthetics, and Education VOLUME 6 SERIES EDITOR Liora Bresler, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, U.S.A.
EDITORIAL BOARD Eeva Antilla, Theatre Academy, Helsinki, Finland Magne Espeland, Stord University, Norway Samuel Leong, Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong Minette Mans, International Consultant, Windhoek, Namibia Jonathan Neelands, University of Warwick, UK Gary McPherson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, U.S.A. Mike Parsons, The Ohio State University, U.S.A. Shifra Schonmann, University of Haifa, Israel Julian Sefton-Green, University of South Australia, Australia Susan W. Stinson, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, U.S.A. Christine Thompson, Pennsylvania State University, U.S.A.
SCOPE This series aims to provide conceptual and empirical research in arts education, (including music, visual arts, drama, dance, media, and poetry), in a variety of areas related to the post-modern paradigm shift. The changing cultural, historical, and political contexts of arts education are recognized to be central to learning, experience, and knowledge. The books in this series present theories and methodological approaches used in arts education research as well as related disciplines - including philosophy, sociology, anthropology and psychology of arts education.
For other titles published in this series, go to www.springer.com/series/6199
John O’Toole · Madonna Stinson · Tiina Moore
Drama and Curriculum A Giant at the Door
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Madonna Stinson Nanyang Technological University National Institute of Education 1 Nanyang Walk Singapore 637616 Singapore [email protected]
John O’Toole 24/9-19 Miller Street Fitzroy North VIC 3068 Australia [email protected]
Tiina Moore 11 Thompson Crescent Research VIC 3095 Australia [email protected]
ISBN: 978-1-4020-9369-2
e-ISBN: 978-1-4020-9370-8
DOI 10.1007/978-1-4020-9370-8 Library of Congress Control Number: 2008939879 c Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009 No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Printed on acid-free paper 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 springer.com
To the worldwide community of drama educators, who have been knocking at the door of curriculum for so long, with such resourcefulness, imagination, artistry, scholarship, patience, and care.
Foreword
‘Here’s a knocking indeed!’ says the Porter in Shakespeare’s Scottish play (Act II, Scene 3) and immediately puts himself into role in order to deal with the demands of such an early call after a late night of drinking and carousal: ‘If a man were porter of hell-gate . . .’. But what roles does the porter of curriculum-gate take on in order to deal with drama’s persistent demand
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