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Chinese and Norwegian Perspectives on Drama and Applied Theatre
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In this article, we present and discuss how traditional Chinese culture is connected to moral education (), current governmental strategies in education and educational drama as an approach to moral education. We argue that the mixture in of moral and ideological education in today’s China is nothing new, and totally consistent with China’s pre-revolutionary periods. Although current government strategies in education emphasize aesthetic subjects such as drama/theatre (), and include methods and conventions in educational drama, it is hard to perceive whether the policy is open to an explorative learning process, characteristic of educational drama, or rather implies a more classical approach, based on textbooks and memorization, or even pure learning techniques. Nevertheless, processual processes to drama seem to harmonize with ambitions in China’s current school reforms and to be relevant to moral education within a social framework.

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Keyword(s): Chinese culture; Chinese curriculum revisions; deyu; drama education; Drama Etudes; educational drama; moral education

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