Theatre, education and the making of meanings : art or instument? - Jackson, Anthony, 1943- (Manchester, UK ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Disbributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2007)
-- 1. Theatre, learning and the aesthetic dimension: preliminary perspectives -- part I. Early warnings: theatre, education and social change, 1900-1947 -- 2. Prelude: 1900-1914 -- New Drama, new audiences -- 3. Agitating the audience: theatre, propaganda and education in the 1930s -- 4. Theatre and the challenge of science, 1936-1947: some historical perspectives -- part II. Postwar: theatre, learning and participation -- 5. Audience participation and aesthetic distance -- 6. Positioning the audience: framing the drama -- 7. Creative gaps: the didactic and the dialogic -- 8. Targets, outcomes -- and playfulness -- 9. Interacting with the past: the use of participatory theatre at museums and heritage sites.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [274]-289) and index.
Keywords: Drama in education; Theater -- History -- 20th century; Theater -- History -- 21st century