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Theatre, Education and the Making of Meanings: Art or Instrument?
Anthony Jackson
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Paperback. The book is a study of theatre's educational role in the 20th and the first years of the 21st centuries. It examines the variety of ways the theatre's educational potential has been harnessed and theorised by the claims made for its value and the tension between theatre as education and theatre as 'art'. Num Pages: 304 pages, 21 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AN. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 158 x 24. Weight in Grams: 494.
This book is a study of theatre's educational role during the 20th and the first years of the 21st centuries. It examines the variety of ways the theatre's educational potential has been harnessed and theorised, the claims made for its value and the tension bettween theatre as education and theatre as 'art': between theatre's aesthetic dimenstion and the 'utilitarian' or 'instrumental' role for which it has so often been pressed into service. Following a preliminary discussion of some key theoretical approaches to aesthetics, dramatic art and learning and, above all, the relationships between them, the study is ... Read more
This book is a study of theatre's educational role during the 20th and the first years of the 21st centuries. It examines the variety of ways the theatre's educational potential has been harnessed and theorised, the claims made for its value and the tension bettween theatre as education and theatre as 'art': between theatre's aesthetic dimenstion and the 'utilitarian' or 'instrumental' role for which it has so often been pressed into service. Following a preliminary discussion of some key theoretical approaches to aesthetics, dramatic art and learning and, above all, the relationships between them, the study is ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780719065439
SKU
V9780719065439
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About Anthony Jackson
Anthony Jackson is Professor of Educational Theatre at the University of Manchester -- .
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