Masterclass in Drama Education

'MasterClass in Drama Education provides an excellent insight into teaching drama in the twenty-first century. It considers the challenges and offers pragmatic solutions for educating the young people of today who face an unknown and unimaginable future. This text looks back over the history of drama education with a superb summary of the field to date, comprehensively covering the development of the field with references to practitioners and academics in Australia, America, Canada and the UK. In part two, Anderson discusses drama as a productive pedagogy for democratic learning in a long overdue reconsideration of both the aesthetics and power of drama in the classroom. This text is a significant addition to the literature of drama education both for experienced teachers and those new to the field.' Selina Busby, Course Leader, Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London, UK