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Drama and Curriculum

Part of the book series: Landscapes: the Arts, Aesthetics, and Education ((LAAE,volume 6))

The copious references in the last chapter to the next strand in our Paradigms of Purpose, that we have named the social/pedagogical: drama for learning, have already underlined that there is an organic connection rather than the hiatus between them that the page break implies. This chapter picks up, for instance, on drama’s motivating power, on the significance or utility of drama in the education of values and ethics and on the big and open questions of its role in behaviour-change and attitude-change and, therefore, social agency, at levels from the school classroom to the geopolitical agendas of Theatre for Development and Theatre of the Oppressed. The chapter deals, besides, in the more utilitarian or instrumental functions of drama’s uses in learning the kinds of knowledge and skills that currently comprise the formal curriculum of schooling.

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O’Toole, J. (2009). Drama as Pedagogy. In: Drama and Curriculum. Landscapes: the Arts, Aesthetics, and Education, vol 6. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9370-8_6

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