Resilience or Resistance? The Value of Subject Knowledge for Drama Teachers

Autor/in	Kempe, Andy
Titel	Resilience or Resistance? The Value of Subject Knowledge for Drama Teachers
Quelle	In: Research in Drama Education, 14 (2009) 3, S.411-428 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1356-9783
Schlagwörter	Drama; Foreign Countries; Secondary School Teachers; Knowledge Base for Teaching; Professional Development; Teacher Characteristics; Locus of Control; Expertise; Scholarship; Questionnaires; Teacher Surveys; Needs Assessment; United Kingdom (England) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Schauspiel; Ausland; Teaching theory; Theory of teaching; Unterrichtstheorie; Expert appraisal; Scholarships; Stipendium; Fragebogen; Bedarfsermittlung
Abstract	This paper reports on research undertaken into what secondary school drama teachers think they need to possess in terms of subject knowledge in order to operate effectively as drama specialists. "Subject knowledge" is regarded as being multi-faceted, and the paper considers how drama teachers prioritise its different aspects. A discussion of what "subject knowledge" may be seen to encompass reveals interesting tensions between aspects of professional knowledge that are prescribed by government policy and local context, and those that are valued by individual teachers and are manifest in their construction of a professional identity. The paper proposes that making judgements that associate propositional and substantive knowledge with traditionally held academic values as "bad" or "irrelevant" to drama education, and what Foucault has termed "subjugated knowledge" (i.e. local, vernacular, enactive knowledge that eludes inscription) as "good" and more apposite to the work of all those involved in drama education, fails to reflect the complex matrices of values that specialists appear to hold. While the reported research focused on secondary school drama teachers in England, Bourdieu's conception of field and habitus is invoked to suggest a model which recognises how drama educators more generally may construct a professional identity that necessarily balances personal interests and beliefs with externally imposed demands. (Contains 3 figures and 1 table.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10