In this book, Kathleen Gallagher presents a multi-case study of
adolescent girls who are learning through drama about their
particular sexual, cultural, ethnic, and class-based identities in
relation to the broader world around them. By examining the power
and possibility of drama in schools to animate the processes of
learning, Gallagher's research offers hope for meaningful
reflection on pedagogy in what she sees as an increasingly
mechanistic and disempowering period in education. This work is a
unique contribution to the fields of equity studies and the arts in
education, as it provides a new lens through which to examine
gender, diversity, and schooling. Experiencing the drama curriculum
as a process and method, the students learn by taking on different
roles. This re-positioning of the learner generates new and rich
experiences in the dialectic of life and art and the discourse of
the "world as a stage" metaphor.
Combining research and classroom practice in a public Catholic
girls' school over an eighteen-month period, the author illustrates
how drama provides a fertile ground for the intellectual and
emotional development of girls, as they draw on their own lives and
experiences in order to create their fictional worlds. She
demonstrates how the collective action of drama in the classroom
can support girls in becoming the authors of their own experiences.
This compelling book reveals the liberatory possibilities of drama
education for the vastly diverse and complex group, adolescent
girls. The doctoral research on which "Drama Education in the Lives
of Girls" was based received the American Alliance of Theatre and
Education's most distinguished scholarly research award for
1999.
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