Drama for Schools and Beyond : Transformative Learning Through the Arts

Transformative Professional Learning in Arts Integration invites educators and artists to name and center dilemma, discovery, and learning at the core of their collaborative efforts to improve the learning culture of classrooms through the arts.A dilemma comes in many forms. Personal and programmatic dilemmas are often the result of a rupture between personal belief and the requirements of a system.The rupture - or dilemma - seeds a desire for something new, something better.However, as Queensland Aboriginal activists remind us, we must address our own bias and power in relationship to those we presume to support: "If you have come to help me, you are wasting your time; but if you are here because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.” This text, therefore, shares the stories of individuals working towards collective educational improvement and change.It is a story of failure and possibility, about individuals “bound up with” with each other, harnessing the