Drama and Curriculum : A Giant at the Door

‘Here’s a knocking indeed!’ says the Porter in Shakespeare’s Scottish play (Act II, Scene 3) and immediately puts himself into role in order to deal with the demands of such an early call after a late night of drinking and carousal: ‘If a man were porter of hell-gate...’.

Acknowledgments Preface by John O''Toole Part One - Background and context Chapter One - Strange bedfellows: drama and education by John O''Toole Chapter Two - Curriculum: the house that Jack built by John O''Toole and Madonna Stinson Part Two - Theories and practices Chapter Three - Drama and language by John O''Toole and Madonna Stinson Chapter Four - Drama for development and expression by John O''Toole Chapter Five - Drama as pedagogy by John O''Toole Chapter Six - Civil wars by John O''Toole Chapter Seven - The three pillars of art by John O''Toole Part Three - Drama in action in contemporary curriculum Chapter Eight - Doorway politics: cracking an education system by John O''Toole and Madonna Stinson Chapter Nine - Drama as macro-curriculum: peeking behind the closed doors of drama syllabus development by Madonna Stinson Chapter Ten - The History Centre: a micro-curriculum by Tiina Moore Chapter Eleven - Pasts, present and futures: which door next? by John O''Toole and Madonna Stinson