Drama Education in the Lives of Girls: Imagining Possibilities

by Kathleen Gallagher

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802084788
• ISBN13: 9780802084781
• Release Date: April 2001
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.2"