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‘Here’s a knocking indeed!’ says the Porter in Shakespeare’s Scottish play (Act II, Scene 3) and immediately puts himself into role in order to deal with the demands of such an early call after a late night of drinking and carousal: ‘If a man were porter of hell-gate...’. But what roles does the porter of curriculum-gate take on in order to deal with drama’s persistent demands for entry? Ah, that depends upon the temperature of the times. We, who have been knocking for what seems to be a very long time, know well that when evaluation and measurement criteriaare demanded as evidence of drama’s ef cacy, an examiner stands as gatekeeper. When the educational landscape is in danger of overcrowding, we meet a territorial governor. And how often has the courtesan turned out to be only a tease because the arts are, for a brief moment, in the spotlight for their abilities to foster out-of-the-box thinkers? In this text, we meet these ‘commissionaires’ and many more. The gatekeeping roles and what they represent are so familiar that they have become cliches ´ to us. We know them by their arguments, ripostes, dismissals, their brief encouragement and lack of follow-up. And we know that behind each one (however rmly they think they keep the keys) is a nancial and political master whose power controls the curriculum building and everything in it.

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Author:   John O'Toole ,  Madonna Stinson ,  Tiina Moore
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Edition:   2009 ed.
Volume:   6
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   1.140kg
ISBN:  

9781402093692

ISBN 10:   1402093691
Pages:   222
Publication Date:   26 March 2009
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Background and Context.- Strange Bedfellows: Drama and Education.- Curriculum: The House that Jack Built.- Theories and Practices.- Drama and Language.- Drama for Development and Expression.- Drama as Pedagogy.- Civil Wars.- The Three Pillars of Art.- Drama in Action in Contemporary Curriculum.- Doorway Politics: Cracking an Education System.- Drama as Macro-Curriculum: Peeking Behind the Closed Doors of Drama Syllabus Development.- The History Centre: A Micro-Curriculum.- Pasts, Present and Futures: Which Door Next?.

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