Abstract This article examines the intersection between the senior secondary drama classroom, creativity and neoliberalism. Informed by a research project involving fifteen West Australian drama teachers and thirteen students, it considers the drama classroom as one site where tensions between the performative needs of neoliberal education and the more humanistic desires that drama teachers embody are enacted. This paper suggests that drama education can be a powerfully transformative vehicle for creative and innovative thinking because of its spatially unique classroom environment and embodied nature. However, collisions between rhetoric and reality, social good and economic return, can mean that young people are denied opportunities for choice and the capability development that drama education brings.

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高中戏剧教室的表演和创造力

摘要本文探讨了高中戏剧教室，创造力和新自由主义之间的交集。在一项由15名西澳大利亚戏剧老师和13名学生参与的研究项目的通知下，该研究机构将戏剧教室视为新自由主义教育的表演需求与体现戏剧老师所体现的更加人性化欲望之间的张力的场所。本文认为，由于戏剧空间的独特教室环境和体现的本质，戏剧教育可以成为创造性思维和创新思维的有力变革工具。然而，修辞与现实，社会福利与经济回报之间的冲突，可能意味着年轻人被剥夺了选择机会和戏剧教育带来的能力发展机会。