Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Meaning by Shakespeares -- Tracing a Cultural Politics of Shakespeare -- Contextualising Shakespeare in Education -- Problematising Shakespeare Valued -- Previewing Shakespeare Valued -- Chapter 1: Shakespeare in Policy: Agendas for Standards, Skills and Inclusion -- The Victorian Standards -- Twentieth-Century English Education Policy -- The 1989 National Curriculum -- Why Shakespeare? -- Why Still Shakespeare? -- Shakespeare for Skills -- Shakespeare for Standards -- Shakespeare for Inclusion -- Naturalising Shakespeare's Curriculum Presence -- Chapter 2: Shakespeare in English Pedagogy: Values, Influence and Criticism -- Drama in the Curriculum -- ICT, Media and Creative Writing -- Literary Critical Approaches -- Active Methods -- Contextual Approaches -- Pedagogies for Trainee Teachers -- Common Influences on Pedagogies -- Pedagogies Globally -- Chapter 3: Shakespeare in Theatre and Heritage: Three Education Departments -- RSC, SBT and Globe Education -- Physical Proximity at the SBT -- Play and Community at the Globe -- Ensemble Plus at the RSC -- The RSC as 'Cultural Chemist' -- Afterword -- Shakespeare Under the Coalition: An End to Shakespeare for All? -- Works Cited -- Index -- Back Cover.
Taking a comprehensive critical and theoretical approach to the role of Shakespeare in educational policy and pedagogy from 1989 to the present, Shakespeare Valued explores the esteem afforded Shakespeare in the British educational system and its evolution throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
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Drama in education. Dramatists, English -- Early modern, 1500-1700. Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Study and teaching -- Great Britain. Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.