Dramatic Interactions in Education draws together contemporary sociocultural research across drama and educational contents to draw out implications for researchers and practitioners both within and outside the field. Drama is a field for which human interactions, experience, emotional expression, and attitude are central, with those in non-arts fields discovering that understandings emerging from drama education can provide models and means for examining the affective and relational domains which are essential for understanding learning processes. In addition to this, those in the realm of drama education and applied theatre are realising that sociocultural and historical-cultural approaches can usefully inform their research and practice. Leading international theorists and researchers from across the UK, Europe, USA and Australia combine theoretical discussions, research methodologies, accounts of research and applications in classroom and learning contexts, as they explore concepts from Vygotsky's foundational work and interrogate key concepts such as perezhivanie (or the emotional, lived experience), development of self, zone of proximal development.

 

 

There are 312 pages in this book. This book was published in 2016 by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC .

SUSAN DAVIS has worked as a library assistant, dinnerlady, museum guide, tourist information assistant and amateur astrologer. The author of many short stories for adults, which have been published widely in magazines, and the winner of the West Midlands Arts Literature Award in 1998 and two competitions for new writing run by Mslexia magazine, THE HENRY GAME is her first teenage novel. She lives in Shropshire and has two grown-up children and one young grandson.