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Analyses the relationship between professional arts practitioners and professional educators
Grounds theoretical elements in real world challenges
Presents a broad range of practitioner and educationalist voices
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies In Play, Performance, Learning, and Development (PPLD)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book considers the state of contemporary theatre education in Great Britain is in two parts. The first half considers the national identities of each of the three mainland nations of England, Scotland, and Wales to understand how these differing identities are reflected and refracted through culture, theatre education and creative learning. The second half attends to 21st century theatre education, proposing a more explicit correlation between contemporary theatre and theatre education. It considers how theatre education in the country has arrived at its current state and why it is often marginalised in national discourse. Attention is given to some of the most significant developments in contemporary theatre education across the three nations, reflecting on how such practice is informed by and offers a challenge to conceptions of place and nation. Drawing upon the latest research and strategic thinking in culture and the arts, and providing over thirty interviews and practitioner case studies, this book is infused with a rigorous and detailed analysis of theatre education, and illuminated by the voices and perspectives of innovative theatre practitioners.
Keywords
- Devised theatre
- Stan's Cafe
- Talkingbirds
- RedEarth
- Visible Fictions
- BigFoot Arts Education
- Bamboozle Theatre Company
- Imitating the Dog
- Primary Education
- Secondary Education
- Early years
- Co-authorship
- Collaboration
- Social activism
- Cultural theory
Authors and Affiliations
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School of Arts, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK
Mark Crossley
About the author
Mark Crossley is an Associate Professor at De Montfort University, UK, specialising in performing arts education and intermedial practice. He has written and edited numerous journal articles and two previous books, Devising Theatre with Stan’s Cafe (2017) and Intermedial Theatre: Principles and Practice (2019). He currently sits on the editorial board for the journal RiDE : Research in Drama Education.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Contemporary Theatre Education and Creative Learning
Book Subtitle: A Great British Journey
Authors: Mark Crossley
Series Title: Palgrave Studies In Play, Performance, Learning, and Development
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63738-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-63737-8Published: 01 June 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-63740-8Published: 02 June 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-63738-5Published: 31 May 2021
Series ISSN: 2946-2630
Series E-ISSN: 2946-2649
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 301
Number of Illustrations: 15 illustrations in colour
Topics: Applied Theatre, Contemporary Theatre, Performing Arts, Performers and Practitioners