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Drama Education in the Global Context

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Drama education is broad and diverse. As a term, it is differently understood and used according to place, time, culture and practitioner with a range of contrasting, even competing, ways of defining the field and practice. Circumstances, constraints and frames of reference shift what drama education is and how it is realized. In this chapter, we focus on capturing facets of the drama education crystal in the space available.

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  1. Murdoch University, Perth, WA, Australia

    Robin Pascoe

  2. The Absolutely Fabulous Theatre Connection, Hong Kong, China

    Lynn FC Yau

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    Georgina Barton

  2. Faculty of Business, Education, Law and Arts School of Linguistics, Adult and Specialist Education, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia

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Pascoe, R., Yau, L.F. (2017). Drama Education in the Global Context. In: Barton, G., Baguley, M. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Global Arts Education. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55585-4_4

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