Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: -- Mapping Stories -- PART I: Looking Back: Histories and Landscapes -- Spaces to Imagine: Theatre and Social Reform -- Spaces to Play: Childhood, Theatre and Educational Utopias -- Places to Learn: Activity and Activism -- PART II: Moving On: Theatre Education in the Twenty-first Century -- Traces and Places -- Globalisation and Regeneration: Re-branding Creativity -- Dramatising Home: Places of Safety and Risk -- 'This Island's Mine': National Identity and Questions of Belonging -- International Spaces: Global Citizenship and Cultural Exchange -- Changing Worlds: Performing Science, Theatre and Public Engagement -- Cool Spaces: Learning in Theatre and Beyond Theatres. -- Bibliography.

"Theater education has often provided theatre-makers with radical new ways to encourage social participation and aesthetic engagement. This timely new book raises questions about how twentieth century practices have been revised in the twenty-first century, and how theatre-makers are finding new ways to engage young people in contemporary issues" -- Provided by publisher.

All age.