Drawing on the experiences and insights of theorists and practitioners from across the world, Learning Through Theatre shows how theatre can, and does, promote:
Now transatlantically edited by Anthony Jackson and Chris Vine, Learning Through Theatre offers exhilarating new reflections on the book’s original aim: to define, describe and debate the salient features, and wider political context, of one of the most important – and radical – developments in contemporary theatre.
Anthony Jackson is Emeritus Professor of Educational Theatre at the University of Manchester, editor of the two previous editions of Learning through Theatre, editor (with Jenny Kidd) of Performing Heritage (MUP 2011), and author of Theatre, Education and the Making of Meanings (MUP 2007).
Chris Vine
is Academic Director of the M.A. in Applied Theatre, The City University of New York. He is a former Artistic Director of Greenwich Young People’s Theatre, London, and the Creative Arts Team, New York. His specialities include TIE and Theatre of the Oppressed.