Drama Education & Drama Therapy Books

New and Published Books

1. The Heart of Teaching

   Empowering Students in the Performing Arts

   By Stephen Wangh

   The Heart of Teaching is a book about teaching and learning in the performing arts. Its focus is on the inner dynamics of teaching: the processes by which teachers can promote—or undermine—creativity itself. It covers the many issues that teachers, directors and choreographers experience, from...

   Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
2. Planning Process Drama

   Enriching teaching and learning, 2nd Edition

   By Pamela Bowell, Brian S. Heap

   Process drama is now firmly established, internationally, as a powerful and dynamic pedagogy. This clear and accessible book provides a practical, step-by-step guide to the planning of process drama. Grounded in theory and illustrated in practice, it identifies and explains the principles of...

   Published November 27th 2012 by Routledge
3. Using Storytelling to Support Children and Adults with Special Needs

   Transforming lives through telling tales

   Edited by Nicola Grove

   This innovative and wide-ranging book shows how storytelling can open new worlds for learners with or without special educational needs. With sections that outline both therapeutic and educational approaches, the leading practitioners who contribute to this practical resource draw on their...

   Published November 11th 2012 by Routledge
4. Theatre in Practice

   A Student's Handbook

   By Nick O'Brien, Annie Sutton

   Theatre in Practice provides students with all of the ‘must have’ Drama skills required for A-Level, International Baccalaureate, BTEC and beyond. Practical, step-by-step exercises and diagrams give access to the key figures and processes central to drama, including: Stanislavski, Brecht, Lecoq...

   Published November 5th 2012 by Routledge
5. Drama, Disability and Education

   A critical exploration for students and practitioners

   By Andy Kempe

   What can society learn about disability through the way it is portrayed in TV, films and plays? This insightful and accessible text explores and analyses the way disability is portrayed in drama, and how that portrayal may be interpreted by young audiences. Investigating how disabilities have been...

   Published September 2nd 2012 by Routledge
6. Understanding Disability Studies and Performance Studies

   Edited by Bruce Henderson, Noam Ostrander

   This collection brings together scholarship and creative writing that brings together two of the most innovative fields to emerge from critical and cultural studies in the past few decades: Disability studies and performance studies. It draws on writings about such media as live performance...

   Published July 25th 2012 by Routledge
7. Teaching Classroom Drama and Theatre

   Practical Projects for Secondary Schools, 2nd Edition

   By Martin Lewis, John Rainer

   This revised and updated edition of Teaching Classroom Drama and Theatre will be an essential text for anyone teaching drama in the modern classroom. It presents a model teachers can use to draw together different methodologies of drama and theatre studies, exemplified by a series of contemporary,...

   Published May 27th 2012 by Routledge
8. Dramatherapy with Children, Young People and Schools

   Enabling Creativity, Sociability, Communication and Learning

   Edited by Lauraine Leigh, Irvine Gersch, Ann Dix, Deborah Haythorne

   Dramatherapy with Children, Young People and Schools is the first book to specifically evaluate the unique value of dramatherapy in the educational environment. A variety of highly experienced dramatherapists, educational psychologists and childhood experts discuss the benefits to the children and...

   Published January 18th 2012 by Routledge
9. Playwriting Across the Curriculum

   By Caroline Jester, Claire Stoneman

   This book is a guide to introducing the craft of playwriting into the secondary English curriculum at key stage 3, using the TEEP (Teacher Effectiveness Enhancement Programme) framework. The authors also provide a particular focus on applying this versatile scheme of work to other areas of the...

   Published October 23rd 2011 by Routledge
10. The Politics of American Actor Training

    Edited by Ellen Margolis, Lissa Tyler Renaud

    Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies

    The essays in this volume address the historical, social, colonial, and administrative contexts that determine today's U.S. actor training, as well as matters of identity politics, access, and marginalization as they emerge in classrooms and rehearsal halls. It considers persistent, questioning...

    Published June 5th 2011 by Routledge