Overview
- First collection exploring how drama education facilitates creativity enhancement
- Presents a variety of disciplinary perspectives
- Includes theory, research, and pedagogical practices
Part of the book series: Creativity Theory and Action in Education (CTAE, volume 2)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Are Actors Creative?
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Activities for Teaching Creativity
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Drama, Theatre, Therapy, Creativity
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Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries
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Keywords
- Education for creativity
- Applied Theatre/Drama
- Theatre/Drama as pedagogy
- Cognitive science and theatre/drama
- Creative process in theatre/drama
- Creative process in actor training
- Performance classes enhancing creativity
- Learning creativity
- Acting techniques training imagination
- Multidisciplinary investigation of theatre and creativity
- Relationship between theatre and creativity
- learning and instruction
About this book
People who don’t know theatre may think the only creative artist in the field is the playwright--with actors, directors, and designers mere “interpreters” of the dramatist’s vision. Historically, however, creative mastery and power have passed through different hands. Sometimes, the playwright did the staging. In other periods, leading actors demanded plays be changed to fatten their roles. The late 19th and 20th centuries saw “the rise of the director,” in which director and playwright struggled for creative dominance. But no matter where the balance of power rested, good theatre artists of all kinds have created powerful experiences for their audience.
The purpose of this volume is to bridge the interdisciplinary abyss between the study of creativity in theatre/drama and in other fields. Sharing theories, research findings, and pedagogical practices, the authors and I hope to stimulate discussion among creativity and theatre scholar/teachers,as well as multidisciplinary research.
Theatre educators know from experience that performance classes enhance student creativity. This volume is the first to bring together perspectives from multiple disciplines on how drama pedagogy facilitates learning creativity. Drawing on current findings in cognitive science, as well as drama teachers’ lived experience, the contributors analyze how acting techniques train the imagination, allow students to explore alternate identities, and discover the confidence to take risks. The goal is to stimulate further multidisciplinary investigation of theatre education and creativity, with the intention of benefitting both fields.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Creativity in Theatre
Book Subtitle: Theory and Action in Theatre/Drama Education
Editors: Suzanne Burgoyne
Series Title: Creativity Theory and Action in Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78928-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-78927-9Published: 04 October 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-07682-5Published: 21 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-78928-6Published: 14 September 2018
Series ISSN: 2509-5781
Series E-ISSN: 2509-579X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 287
Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations, 8 illustrations in colour
Topics: Creativity and Arts Education, Learning & Instruction, Teaching and Teacher Education