Reflective Practitioner's Guide to (Mis)Adventures in Drama Education - or - What Was I Thinking? (eBook)

lt;p>Peter Duffy (Ed.D.) is Head of the Master of Arts in Teaching Program in Theatre Education at the University of South Carolina.

Foreword 

Introduction 

Part One: Hoops of My Making

Chapter 1: “Chicken Merry, Hawk deh near”: A Letter of Apology – Brian S. Heap

Chapter 2: The Vicious Circle: A Study in Stupidity – Peter Duffy

Chapter 3: Teaching in Role: Just Another Name is Never Enough – Pamela Bowell

Chapter 4: Storying the Dramas of Teaching Drama – Christine Hatton

Chapter 5: Giant Mistakes – Patrice Baldwin

Chapter 6: “A Lord of the Flies Moment”: The Consequences of Wrong Gaming Directions – Johnny Saldaña

Chapter 7: Teaching by Terror: Ordeal, Ego and Education – John O’Toole

Part Two: Assumptions and Expectations: Failing Better

Chapter 8: Kindling Fires and Facing Giants: Learning About Drama from Children with Special Needs – Robert Colby

Chapter 9: An Alaskan Education: From Service to Sustainability – Kathryn Dawson

Chapter 10: What Was I Thinking: Why Am I Thinking As I Do? – Gustave J. Weltsek

Chapter 11: Encountering the Unexpected and Extending the Horizons of Expectation: An Autoethnographic Exploration of Developing Teaching Practice – Michael Anderson

Chapter 12: Democracy Over-Ruled, Or How to Deny Young Children’s Agency and Voice Through Drama! – Julie Dunn

Chapter 13: What You Don’t Know CAN Hurt You – Christina Marín

Chapter 14: “Texting” in the Drama Classroom: Pedagogical Adjustments to Unfamiliar Cultures from a Guest Artist Perspective – Allison Manville Metz

Chapter 15: The Day that Shrek Was Almost Rescued: Doing Process Drama with Children with an Autism Spectrum Disorder – Carmel O’Sullivan

Chapter 16: Failing Better – Juliana Saxton

Afterword: Looking Back to See Ahead – David Booth