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Gavin Bolton
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GAVIN BOLTON LEADING FIGURE IN DRAMA IN EDUCATION
Presented by PERSON for COMPANY
OVERVIEW
"If we were to watch a child in a garden being a policeman, we would say he is 'playing'; if we watched an actor on stage being a policeman, we would say he is 'performing.'" (Bolton 2011)
OVERVIEW
THE MAN
Teacher, theorist and prolific writer
7 books
70 articles and chapters addressing the theory and practice of education.
THE MAN
Inspired by:
Dorothy Heathcote
Inspired by:
Drama For Learning.
Investigating the "Mantle of the Expert Approach"
"All these areas mark him out as a teacher, imbedded ...
"All these areas mark him out as a teacher, imbedded in practice, not a theoretitian. All his writings about this practice spring from his own teaching
THE GAME OF DRAMA
"The basic experience of drama offered to children and college students falls into three major orientations;
Type A: Exercise;
Taype B : Dramatic Playing;
Type C: Theatre
Type D: All of the above = drama for understanding - Is Gavin's advocation
"The basic experience of drama offered to children and college students falls into three major orientations;
Type A: Exercise;
Taype B : Dramatic Playing;
Type C: Theatre
Type D: All of the above = drama for understanding - Is Gavin's advocation
"The basic experience of drama offered to children a...
"MAKING"
‘they are not receiving knowledge or acquiring knowledge but making it’ (Bolton and Heathcote, 1999)
"MAKING"
"DRAMA FOR UNDERSTANDING"
(Bolton 1979)
"above all my aim is to help pupil's appreciate drama as a potential for change in understanding; their expectations of this potential being realised provide it's necessary dynamic" (Bolton 1979)
"Learning has to be felt to be effective"
Angle of Connection
Surprise
"WHAT IS DRAMA? AND WHEN IS DRAMA DRAMA"
A LIFELONG CONCERN
"The relationship of drama to play"
"The cognitive/affective nature of the experience"
"The relationship of children's play, dramatic playing and theatre"
"Helping children to understand the social world around them and their relationship to it"(Davis 2010:xv)
Some years later...
David Hornbrook wrote
"It is my contention that conceptually there is nothing which differentiates the child acting in the classroom from the actor on the stage of the theatre"(cited in Bolton, 1998)
Bolton wrote his 1998 book "Acting in Classroom Drama" and his entire PHD thesis in direct response to this sentence. To prove Hornbrook wrong!
Finally:
There are many aspects to Gavin Bolton's work that are useful to us as drama teachers.
"living through drama"
Play uses "being" to "explore being"
Finally:
"he wants drama to challenge"
"second dimension of role"
"dramatic playing"
"secondary symbolism"