Pulling Back the Curtain on Theatre Arts Instruction

Theatre often requires curricular and pedagogical choices different from those of traditional subjects. The arts are considered different from other forms of knowledge and expression, and to teach theatre in a school setting requires a distinctive approach (Hartfield, 1993; Slaight, 1994). Literature often addresses the merits of including the arts in schools (Bamford, 2006; Greene, 1995; Noblit, Corbett, Wilson, & McKinney, 2009; Robinson, 1993), but this case focuses on how the goals of theatre education require different choices for teachers in terms of style, content, and measurement.