Drama in Education as a Theatre Repertoire

Abstract

There have been a great many expectations from educational drama, particularly from the second half of the 20th century on, from the moment that it succeeded in freeing itself from the status of merely serving as a tool to teach the English language. Beginning from the 1950s, educational drama was seen as a potential universal panacea in education and instruction. An exaggerated expectation? Possibly. But such hopes are undoubtedly no different from similar hopes held for other means and methods of teaching such as instructional television, computers and audio-visual tools.