Hida, Norifumi (2013) Reconsidering hyogen education in Japan : drama for the whole person in the twenty-first century. PhD thesis, University of Warwick.

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Hyogen (expression) education, which I received at elementary school and later university, has been one of major drama activities in the Japanese field of drama in schools. It originates in the Taisho Liberal Education Movement (the first progressive education movement in Japan) in the 1920s and 1930s and has been
strengthened by Creative Drama in the U.S.A. and Drama-in-Education in England. Similarly to Winifred Ward (1930), Peter Slade (1954) and Brian Way (1967), specialists of hyogen education, such as Akira Okada (1985), believe that drama
contributes to the development of a whole person, self-expression and individuality. However, I will argue that a concept of whole person has been re-conceptualised as a result of the emergence of new generations of drama teachers, and consequently hyogen education has become a limited dramatic method and has failed to achieve the development of a whole person. Therefore, in my PhD thesis, I reconsider hyogen education, or drama for a whole person, through the following three questions: 1. What different positions of drama are there in the Japanese field of drama
in schools? (And how have they been genetically and historically
constructed?) 2. How, and for what purposes do Japanese drama teachers use drama in their classrooms today? 3. How has the philosophy of education developed in the field of education? Each of the questions uses hyogen education as a starting point, while exploring the field from a different angle. Hopefully, this will provide Japanese drama teachers with three different, theoretical frameworks to look at the field objectively and understand issues and problems within it. This study adopts bricolage (Kincheloe & Berry, 2004) and cross-cultural comparison (Ember & Ember, 1998) as main research methods, and explores each of the three questions with additional research methods. Above all, with Pierre
Bourdieu's (1993) theory of field, the study emphases that there is the field called 'drama in schools' and it is influenced by wider fields (the field of theatre and the field of education), especially the field of power (politics).

Item Type:	Thesis (PhD)
Subjects:	L Education > LB Theory and practice of education P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN2000 Dramatic representation. The Theater
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):	Drama in education -- Japan
Official Date:	March 2013
Dates:	Date Event March 2013 Submitted
Institution:	University of Warwick
Theses Department:	Institute of Education
Thesis Type:	PhD
Publication Status:	Unpublished
Supervisor(s)/Advisor:	Neelands, Jonothan
Extent:	368 leaves.
Language:	eng

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