With Drama in Mind: Real Learning in Imagined Worlds [Paperback]

In this new and updated edition, Patrice Baldwin brings together key findings from brain research and best practice to highlight the benefits that drama and imagined experience can have on learning, creativity, motivation and self-esteem, and explains why and how drama supports learning.?

The book?offers sound advice on planning and managing drama across the curriculum from ages 5-14, and provides carefully annotated schemes of work complete with photocopiable resource sheets and online templates. Both experienced teachers of drama and non-specialists will appreciate the up-to-date research, new pedagogic examples, multisensory drama techniques and links to contemporary developments in education, such as play-based learning, learning outside the classroom and Philosophy for Children (P4C).


With Drama in Mind is an invaluable source of inspiration for revitalising your teaching and stimulating pupils' imaginations.

Patrice Baldwin is
President of the International Drama Theatre and Education Association (IDEA),
Chair of National Drama and Director of Drama for Learning and Creativity
(D4LC). She now works freelance internationally as an arts/cultural
education and Drama for Learning consultant, workshop leader and speaker.

Foreword \ Introduction \ How to Use this Book \ Part One: Drama for Learning \ 1. Drama in Schools \ 2. Drama and the Brain \ 3. Dramatic Play and Drama in Real, Imagined and Virtual Worlds \ 4. Drama and Intelligence \ 5. Drama and Thinking \ 6. Drama, Creativity and Imagination \ 7. Drama, Inter-Thinking and Talk \ Part Two: Structuring the Drama Experience \ The Drama Contract \ Drama Strategies - Choosing and Using \ The Drma Strategies \ Part Three: The Drama Units \ How to Use these Drama Units \ Unit 1 (ages 5-7) Mr Once Upon a Time \ Unit 2 (ages 5-11) War and Peas \ Unit 3 (ages 7-11) The Victorian Cotton Mill \ Unit 4 (ages 10-13) Bullying \ Unit 5 (ages 9-13) Creating an Imaginary Culture anlÓÊ