1st Edition

Drama at the Heart of the Secondary School Projects to Promote Authentic Learning

By John Rainer, Martin Lewis Copyright 2012
208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

Drama at the Heart of the Secondary School  provides a rationale for the curricular centrality of drama together with rich and detailed examples of cross-phase thematic projects which are drama-led, but which promote learning across a wide range of curriculum areas, from the humanities and other arts, to English and literacy, science and PSHE. Each unit explores relevant and... Read more
Introduction Unit 1: Foundlings Unit 2: Van Dieman's Land Unit 3: Persuasion Unit 4: Child Labour Unit 5: Phaeton Unit 6: Eyam- Plague Village Unit 7: Wordless Books Unit 8: Lizzie Borden Unit 9: Kindertransport Bibliography

Biography

John Rainer is Academic Division Leader for Arts Humanities and Language Education within the Institute of Education, Manchester Metropolitan University. He is also the Course Co-ordinator for PGCE Drama. Martin Lewis is Director of Arts at Kingsbridge Community College.


'Quite simply, if you are interested in cross-thematic work and particularly want to develop the use of drama within the classroom then this is a must buy!'

Rhinegold: Teaching Drama, Spring Edition