Play, Drama and Thought: Intellectual Background to Drama and Education

Arts & Photography

Courtney, Richard

Performing Arts

Littlehampton Book Services Ltd.

The Dramatic Curriculum

Literature & Fiction

Heinemann Educational Books - Secondary Division

The Sunbound

A precious stone , it's gift was the power of survival... It's secret was the power of love.

Felice, Cynthia

Genre Fiction

Dell

Describes several fur-covered flying reptiles that ruled the skies millions of years ago. Features pop-up and movable illustrations.

Pterosaurs: The Flying Reptiles (A Pop-Up Book)

Science & Math

Grosset&Dunlap

Describes several "terrible lizards" that walked the earth 225 million years ago. Features pop-up and movable illustrations.

Dinosaurs: Giants of the Earth (A Pop-Up Book)

Children's Books

Animals

Explores the world of prehistoric mammals, comparing them to their modern descendants. Pop-up sections feature three-dimensional drawings

Prehistoric Mammals (Pop-Up Book)

Kids will enjoy poring over the exciting pictures and fascinating information about different kinds of passenger and freight trains.

All Aboard Trains

Harding, Mary

Sagebrush Education Resources

A guide to navigating the pitfalls of home buying and selling, written by an award-winning realtor, outlines key steps, from dealing with banks and movers to understanding industry terms and working with agents, in a reference that shares inside information on how to buy and sell profitably while recognizing deceptive practices. Original. 25,000 first printing.

Buyers Are Liars & Sellers Are Too!: The Truth About Buying or Selling Your Home

Business & Money

Real Estate

Fireside

This book presents practical examples of modern research in the arts and education, and details how to prepare a thesis. A strong theoretic base is provided with chapters on arts therapies and culture studies.Contents: THE QUEST: What is Research? What is Arts Education? THEORY: The History of Inquiry; Contemporary Forms of Inquiry; Contemporary Knowledge and Reason; PRACTICE: Research Frameworks in Arts Education; Grounded Theory and the CEQRM; The Thesis; The Evaluation of Arts Programs; Examples of Program Evaluation; Research Projects; Arts and Culture Studies; Research in Creative Arts Therapies; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

The Quest: Research and Inquiry in Arts Education

Study & Teaching

Drama, as defined by Courtney, encompasses all kinds of dramatic action, from children's play to social roles and theatre. He shows not only that teachers have found educational drama and spontaneous improvisation to be an invaluable learning tool but that many skills required for work and leisure reflect the theatrical ability to "read" others and see things from their point of view. The main thrust of Drama and Intelligence is that drama can enhance and develop various aspects of intelligence. Courtney suggests that the "costumed player" must bring into play many levels of intelligence in the rehearsal and execution of dramatic acts and that such acts offer unsurpassed opportunities to practice and develop these cognitive skills. He uses the term intelligence to refer to the potential for specific types of mental activity and employs a theoretic-analytic method to view cognition and intelligence in a post-structuralist and semiotic mode. Courtney examines such issues as the relation of the actual to the fictional; the dramatic creation of meaning; signs, symbols, and practical hypotheses; and experi-mental logic, intuition, and tacit modes of operation. Drama and Intelligence will interest not only scholars and students of developmental drama, but also those in the fields of dramatic and performance theory, educational drama, and drama therapy.

Drama and Intelligence: A Cognitive Theory

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

McGill-Queen's University Press

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