Drama and English Teaching: Imagination, Action and Engagement

Bunyan, Paul, English Drama Media

Drama and English Teaching: Imagination, Action and Engagement

Michael Anderson, John Hughes & Jacqueline Manuel

OUP, 2010, 50 [pounds sterling]

ISBN9780195560428

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With some notable exceptions, Drama and English Teaching is not a major publisher's title one would have expected to come across until recently. Speaking, Listening and Drama (Kempe and Holroyd) and more recently the Department for Education handbook for English subject leaders Developing Drama in English, are previous publications which acknowledge the relationship between the ever more sophisticated pedagogy of drama education and the business of developing learners' language in English classrooms.

While this relationship has long been the stuff of primary practice, the dogma of secondary …

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Publication information: Article title: Drama and English Teaching: Imagination, Action and Engagement. Contributors: Bunyan, Paul - Author. Magazine title: English Drama Media. Issue: 19 Publication date: February 2011. Page number: 61. © 2008 National Association for the Teaching of English. COPYRIGHT 2011 Gale Group.

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