Dorothy Heathcote Drama As a Learning Medium

Name: Dorothy Heathcote Drama As a Learning Medium
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ISBN: 9781893056008

ISBN-10: 1893056007

ISBN-13: 9781893056008

Edition: 2nd 1999 (Revised)

Authors: Betty J. Wagner, Cecily O'Neill

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We're confident that this new edition of Betty Jane Wagner's seminal work will be welcomed by drama educators throughout the English-speaking world. Heathcote's work has been profoundly influential in that world. Until the publication in 1976 of Dorothy Heathcote: Drama as a Learning Medium, however, Heathcote's techniques - the pedagogy of drama - lacked full explanation. Wagner's book gives us just that: a close-up detailing of this gifted, dynamic teacher in a variety of classroom settings, along with analyses of Heathcote's remarkable improvisations with young people. Indeed, much of Betty Jane Wagner's book can fairly be described as drama within a drama. It's an engrossing work, for…

Book details

List price: $38.75
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Heinemann
Publication date: 6/1/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 274
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English




What Drama Can Do



Evoking, Not Directing



Edging In



Finding Material Through Brotherhoods



From Segmenting to Dramatic Focus



Leading Through Questions



Building Belief



Dropping to the Universal



Withholding Expertise



Planning



Using Role in Teaching



Theater Elements as Tools



Nonverbal Drama



The Left Hand of Knowing



Classifying Drama



Code Cracking: Literature and Language



Code Cracking: Other Areas of the Curriculum



Groups with Special Needs



Teacher Training



Guarantees for Drama


Bibliography


Index