ABSTRACT
Drama education has the potential to be both a discipline in its own right and also a concrete and creative process for learning in other disciplinary or curricular settings. Different modalities of function and purpose may encourage different kinds of creative learning in drama, or at least what is most likely to be valued in a particular context as creative learning. This chapter considers drama both as a site and as a process for creative learning and teaching, and seeks to define some of its specific creative characteristics. The argument is that all forms of drama and theatre have acting at their heart and that learning to act in both the artistic and social sense increases young people’s capacity to be socially creative.
