New Books

Patrice Baldwin: 40+ ‘Drama’ Strategies to Deepen Whole Class Learning A Toolbox for All Teachers. April 2024
Tim Taylor & Viv Aitken. Try This. 2023.
“Try This is a collection of forty tried and tested learning sequences, or ‘keys’, that will bring classroom learning alive. If you are a teacher seeking to plan active, engaging, rigorous and memorable learning experiences, this book is for you. All the keys use Dramatic Inquiry; an approach to teaching based on the methods of legendary educator Dorothy Heathcote.”

In German: Harald Volker Sommer. Das Chorische Prinzip. Ein Arbeitsbuch für Theater, Pädagogik und Lehre. ibidem, 24.90€. https://www.ibidem.eu/de/das-chorische-prinzip-9783838217338.html

Brian Edmiston and Iona Towler-Evans. Humanizing Education with Dramatic Inquiry, Routledge: 2022. https://www.routledge.com/Humanizing-Education-with-Dramatic-Inquiry-In-Dialogue-with-Dorothy-Heathcotes/Edmiston-Towler-Evans/p/book/9781032216621

Victoria Campbell, Zoe Hogan. Connecting Through Drama, Currency Press: 2022.

https://bit.ly/3sDHVfv

 

Patrice Baldwin, Alicja Galazka (2021) Process Drama for Second Language Teaching and Learning

21.99 £

 

Enlivening Instruction with Drama and Improv : A Guide for Second Language and World Language Teachers book coverMelisa Cahnman-Taylor, Kathleen McGovern (2021). Enlivening  Instruction  with Drama and Improv: A Guide for Second Language and World Language Teachers.

https://www.routledge.com/Enlivening-Instruction-with-Drama-and-Improv-A-Guide-for-Second-Language/Cahnmann-Taylor-McGovern/p/book/9780367862961

Alice Savage. (2019). The Drama Book: Lesson Plans, Activities and Scripts for the Classroom. Alphabet Publishing. (25$) Publisher’s website: https://www.alphabetpublishingbooks.com/book/drama-book

 

Mark Almond. (2019) Putting the Human Centre Stage – Practical theatre techniques to develop teacher presence, rapport and a positive classroom community. Pavillion. Publisher’s website: https://www.pavpub.com/pavilion-elt/putting-the-human-centre-stage

Silja Weber. (PhD Thesis). The Role of Performance for Student Agency – a Discourse Perspective on Whole Group Interaction in Intermediate German Classes, available via Proquest

Dany Weyer. (PhD Thesis) Investigating trust in a multilingual theatre project: Potentialities for a humanising pedagogy. A case study of a multilingual theatre project of a primary school class and a video ethnographic that explored details of classroom practices, (inter-)actions, and activities. February 2019. http://orbilu.uni.lu/handle/10993/38971

Erika Piazzoli. (2018) Embodying Language in Action: The Artistry of Process Drama in Second Language Education. June 2018. 367 Seiten. https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783319779614

Olivier Mentz, Micha Fleiner (eds). The Arts in Language Teaching – International Perspectives: Performative – Aesthetic – Transversal
Reihe: Europa lernen. Perspektiven für eine Didaktik europäischer Kulturstudien. V. 8, 2018, 272 p., 34.90 €, 34.90 CHF, br., ISBN 978-3-643-80285-9. Verlagsseite

Simona Floare Bora . Beyond the mere word. Exploring the language of Drama through text- and performance-based approaches for developing L2 oral skills. (PhD thesis, open access):

http://repository.essex.ac.uk/21287/1/Final%20PhD%20thesis%20Simona%20Bora.pdf