A Review of Drama Education (UK) and Integral Drama Based Pedagogy (China), Western and Eastern Perspectives and Influences

Abstract

This article will consider similarities to and connections with western progressive based drama education and recent developments in China, namely Integral Drama Based Pedagogy (idbp). It will also consider links between dramatherapy and idbp which considers drama from a more emotional and integral education perspective. It will begin by giving a brief history of drama and progressive education in the UK followed by the development of integral education in general and then make connections between the training of dramatherapists in the west to that of student of idbp.