1st Edition

Teaching Drama in Primary and Secondary Schools An Integrated Approach

By Michael Fleming Copyright 2002
    164 Pages
    by David Fulton Publishers

    160 Pages
    by David Fulton Publishers

    This book will be of major interest to student teachers, teachers, lecturers and researchers. It provides a case for an integrated approach to the teaching of drama in primary and secondary schools that will help practitioners develop a theoretical rationale for their work. It also offers practical examples of lesson plans and schemes of work designed to give pupils a broad and balanced experience of drama. These are presented within a framework that argues for an integration of content and form, means and ends, and internal and external experience.

    Whereas the author's previous work argued for an inclusive approach that reconciled polarized views about performance drama and improvisation, this book shows how those activities can be related to each other in practice in an integrated curriculum.

    Introduction; Learning in drama - content and form; Planning lessons - structure and experience; Planning schemes of work - means and ends; Assessing drama - internal and external experiences; Progression in drama - making and responding; Working with script - feeling and form; Performing drama - process and product; Drama and language - meaning and logic; Drama and aesthetics - expression and representation; Conclusion.

    Biography

    Michael Fleming is Director of Initial Teacher Training at the University of Durham.