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Gavin Bolton
Drama as an art form.
Towards a Theory of Drama in Education
Gavin Bolton writes about the learning that can take place as a direct result of dramatic activity. He outlines a form of drama which combines two modes often thought to be incompatible--child play and theatre. For worthwhile learning to take place, children's spontaneous activity should maintain the 'living through' qualities of playing, yet be focused by the teacher using the elements of theatre: contrast, tension, surprise and symbolisation.
Dorothy Heathcote's Story
Dorothy Heathcote is the most public drama teaching figure in the world. She has taught classes of children in five continents. The numbers must run into millions. In addition, innumerable teachers have watched her teach in person or on video and television. How did someone who left secondary school at 14 become a world authority? Bolton describes Dorothy Heathcote's upbringing, her work as a mill girl, her theatre training, her unprecedented appointment to Durham and Newcastle Universities and her extraordinary rise to fame. He examines the basis for her genius and shows how being a wife and mother contributed to her work.
Acting in Classroom Drama
Classroom drama is now a widespread component of the language arts. Yet there has not been an overall analysis of theory, practice, and assessment until the publication of this book by Gavin Bolton.
So You Want to Use Role-play?
Role-play has escaped from the drama studio and established itself as one of the most effective learning techniques across the curriculum, and it is also a crucial component of most management training. This book explains how to use it well.
Sharing the Prize
Southern bus boycotts and lunch counter sit-ins were famous acts of civil disobedience but were also demands for jobs in the very services being denied blacks. Gavin Wright shows that the civil rights struggle was of economic benefit to all parties: the wages of southern blacks increased dramatically but not at the expense of southern whites.
Drama for Learning
Explores Dorothy Heathcote's approach to the use of drama to teach across the curriculum.
Imagining the Real
The current education climate has brought the development of classroom drama as an art form to a standstill. Practitioners need to make a qualitative leap forward in both theory and practice in order to respond to the cultural demands of the times.By linking the best of the ground-breaking work of Dorothy Heathcote and Gavin Bolton with the pioneering developments in theatre form by the playwright Edward Bond, David Davis identifies a possible way forward. In part one he critiques present drama in education - Mantle of the Expert approaches, conventions drama forms and post-dramatic theatre. In part two he restates and develops the best practice of the last fifty years, centring on the key importance of 'living through' drama. In part three he applies the new drama/theatre form of Edward Bond to begin building a new theory of drama in education and so transform classroom practice. Imagining the Real will be essential reading for drama students at first and higher degree level, students on initial courses of teacher education, drama teachers, lecturers in higher and further education and theatre workers generally.
Structure and Spontaneity
Cecily O'Neill has had a formative impact on the evolution of the creative and dynamic mode of teaching called process drama. This book is a compilation of the formative articles of O'Neill along with significant commentaries from leaders in the field.
