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Drama for Schools and Beyond

Transformative Learning Through the Arts

A global blueprint for arts-integrated education that turns schools into laboratories of transformation and collective growth.

How can drama and the arts reshape classrooms, empower teachers, and foster meaningful learning? Drama for Schools and Beyond: Transformative Learning Through the Arts explores two decades of research and practice from the Drama for Schools professional development model at The University of Texas at Austin. Through real-world stories, critical reflections, and global case studies, the authors reveal how arts integration can create more equitable, engaged, and inquiry-driven educational spaces.

This work is both a practical guide and a call to action for educators, teaching artists, and administrators seeking to transform learning environments. By centering collaboration, creativity, and critical thinking, it challenges readers to examine their roles in shaping the future of education. Suitable for those invested in humane, democratic, and arts-based approaches to teaching, Drama for Schools and Beyond proves that learning through the arts is not just an enhancement—it’s a revolution.

304 pages | 6.69 x 9.61 | © 2025

Art: Art--General Studies

Education: Curriculum and Methodology


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Table of Contents

Introduction 

Part 1:   Drama for Schools

1. What is Drama for Schools?

2. Planting Seeds, Establishing Roots: Drama for Schools Alaska

3. Transformative Professional Learning in Arts Integration

Part 2:   Three Stories of Transformation in Texas

Introduction

4. Systems Change Transformation Story (Where)

5. Constructivism Transformation Story (How)

6. Social Justice Transformation Story (Why)

Conclusion

Part 3:    Teachers Transforming Education from Within

Introduction

7. Teachers as Researchers

8. Teachers as Artists

9. Teachers as Collaborators

10. Teachers as Agents of Change

Learning Forward

Part 4:   Transformative Coalitions of Students and Teachers

Introduction   

11. The Student Learning Community in South Australia

12. The Student Teacher Learning Community in Texas

Learning Forward

Epilogue 

Appendices

Index

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