Libro: Teatro en la educación (España, 1970-2018)

Book: Theater in education (Spain, 1970-2018)

Abstract

In this book, Tomás Motos reviews what we know as Theatre in Education in Spain from 17970 till 2018. This theatrical movement and methodology, the origins of which go back to collaborative project work between actors and teachers carried out in Coventry (UK) in 1965, consists, in essence, in the use of theatrical techniques to educate.  

Theatre in Education, as time goes by, has become an umbrella term that has changed during the whole period covered in this book. In this way, nomenclatures have appeared such as dynamic expression, dramatic expression, infant and juvenile theatre, dramatization, theatre workshop, etc. 

The author's main task, who is a member of the Academia de Artes Escénicas de España and director of the Másters in Applied Theatre (Universitat de València) has been that of systematizing the theatrical pedagogy, setting the epistemological bases of theatre in education and to train specialists in applied theatre. And with this book, he tries to approach all the information on what's been done in the contemporary Spain on Theatre in Education to specialists and people who start being interested in the topic.