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- Publisher
- SAGE
- Copyright
- © 1986 Australian Council for Educational Research
- ISSN
- 0004-9441
- eISSN
- 2050-5884
- DOI
- 10.1177/000494418603000307
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
Australian Journal of Education, Vol. 30, No.3, 1986, 300-308 Book Reviews Drama in English Teaching Tricia Evans Croom Helm, London, 1984. 186 pp., £14.95. As is implicit in the title of this volume, the author has a commitment to both drama and the teaching of English in the classroom. The book begins with a lament that the place of drama as a separate discipline in the curriculum has not improved significantly in the decade since the Bullock Committee reported that only 10 per cent of their representative sample of schools had distinct departments of drama. Evans believes that a current survey would reveal an erosion from the 1975 position because of financial constraints, insufficient numbers of specialist teachers of drama, and an expedient official beliefthat - since drama and English share a 'natural intimacy' - the interests of drama are best suited under the aegis of the English department. Evans does not support this view. She argues that not only is drama suffering from neglect in many schools but that, where it is taught, the teaching is either erratic or inadequate or both. This situation, she perceives, is not necessarily a function either of lack of interest or incompetence
Journal
Australian Journal of Education – SAGE
Published: Nov 1, 1986