Learning Through Theatre: Dramatic opportunities, engagements and challenges

This series commissions in-depth studies of the use of theatre and drama for the widest range of specific purposes - beyond entertainment itself - that involve learning. Contexts include formal educational settings such as schools and colleges, as well as social, communal, health, political, developing world, human services, war zones and commercial contexts. In the fields of applied theatre and drama education, three paradigms often define the purpose and the practice:　　

• drama as　art　
• drama as　education　
• drama as　social action and change.　　

Books in the series tackle both the opportunities and the tensions among these paradigms: the developments, the challenges and the achievements in this still-growing field. Critical awareness and appraisal are a key feature, with some titles primarily grounded in theory and analysis, some more illustrative of good and bad practice. Authors include pioneers and established leaders as well as emerging practitioners and scholars.