Creating community resilience: theatre for young audiences and the mental health crisis
Journal article
| Authors | Hunt, A. and Braverman, Danny |
|---|---|
| Abstract | The authors explore the assertion that TYA in schools can play a significant role in addressing the mental health crisis affecting young people in the UK, with implications globally. There is growing consensus that the current mental health crisis is impacting on attainment. However, government remains reluctant to recognise the value of arts education in schools, as narrow instrumentalism continues to feed the ‘exam factory’. This paper proposes not just a reinvigoration of professional TYA in schools, but also a framework to evaluate ‘quality’. Braverman’s Dialogue Across Difference, inspired by the work of Jill Dolan (2008)/Victor Turner (2011), uses the exemplar of Theatre Centre UK. David Johnston’s (Artistic Director 1977-1986), leadership is placed within this framework to explore Hunt’s practice-as-research project Journeys of Destiny (2019). The authors reframe the notion of ‘resilience’ as a community-social paradigm in contrast to an individualistic-medical model. |
| Keywords | theatre, young audiences, mental health, schools, refugees |
| Year | 2020 |
| Journal | Drama Research |
| Publisher | National Drama Publications |
| ISSN | 2040-2228 |
| Web address (URL) | http://hdl.handle.net/10545/624701 |
| hdl:10545/624701 | |
| Publication dates | Apr 2020 |
| Publication process dates | |
| Deposited | 15 Apr 2020, 11:45 |
| Accepted | 21 Jan 2020 |
| Rights | This article was first published in Drama Research: international journal of drama in education Volume 10 April 2020 at: http://www.nationaldrama.org.uk/journal/ |
| Contributors | University of Derby and Goldsmiths University |
| File | File Access Level Open |
| File | File Access Level Open |
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