Children's Environmental Theater is part of an environmental education package for lower elementary students. Materials actively involve the students' environment (indoor and outdoor) and the program is by definition experiential. Included in this article are two plays and discussion guides and related activities for each play. (JC)

Reviews four periodicals with multicultural emphases: (1) "Theater," which contains articles about multicultural theater; (2) "The Diversity Factor," which considers institutional exclusion of some groups; (3) "Native Wind: Good News for Native People," a newspaper providing information about Native American…

Interviews the directors of university theater programs to find out about course offerings for K-12 educators who want to brush up their theatre skills. Finds that graduate programs are rare--most colleges concentrate on undergraduate theatre education programs; some sponsor certification programs. Discusses Masters programs at Roosevelt…

Discusses how the elements of ritual may be exploited to provide optimal learning experiences not only for young people but also for teachers. Describes the evocation of a framed liminoid experience (an experience of flow framed by components of a ritual process) in the context of a castle excursion for university students. (PA)

Addresses the second volume of "Get America Singing...Again." Focuses on using songs from the theater to teach students in the music classroom. Provides a discussion of songs in various categories, such as family, regionalism, and recreational activities. (CMK)

Explains that criminal justice agencies have acknowledged that imaginative and engaging styles of education are crucial to rehabilitative work with offenders. Investigates the ways in which a drama-based cognitive-behavioral program in the United Kingdom for violent offenders can construct and review its theoretical approach through practice.…

States that recent research suggests that an education in theater beginning in kindergarten and continuing throughout the educational process can teach students valuable skills that will serve them well in the professional world, including problem solving, team work, and decision making. Discusses the program at Jefferson High School and its…

Describes Readers Theatre and presents procedures for implementing it. Recommends 24 books for Readers Theatre. Concludes that Readers Theatre can play a constructive role in language arts programs. Notes how it actively engages children in literature and drama, stimulates intrinsic motivation for reading and writing, and facilitates development…

Uses semantic differential to assess specific and global attitudes of children toward the theater experience. Shows that the semantic differential can be used with fifth grade children. (SR)

Describes the history of the Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) Dance Company, known as PHILADANCO, founded in the early 1970s by Joan Myers Brown at her Philadelphia School of Dance. PHILADANCO has sought to discover and train a corps of local Black dancers to build a strong dance company and important cultural institution. (AF)

Discusses four trends in the field of children's theatre: (1) international exchanges of performances; (2) the unification of arts associations and emphasis on advocacy; (3) television's seemingly new awareness of youth and implementation of high quality, substantial programs; and (4) corporate involvement with education. (MS)

Defines theater as a medium in which students can channel their energies in positive and creative ways. Addresses the issue that major universities should concentrate on training secondary theater teachers rather than performance actors in order to improve theater education at the secondary level. Recommends a unification of the national theater…

Relates that art education has not been an integral part of the university curriculum. Contends that the recent emphasis on design education in universities and the discipline based art education movement in the public schools have a great deal in common that might enhance curriculum development at both the university level and in the public…

Describes the author's experiences developing drama productions in collaboration with his high school students, most of whom were new to the United States and new to English, and from a wide variety of countries. Discusses how the author's involvement with the HERALD project helped him to use cooperative student-centered learning and…