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This rich collection of readings offers a wide-ranging and authoritative survey of clown practices, history and theory, from the origins of the word clown through to contemporary clowning. Covering clowns in theatre, circus, cinema, TV, street and elsewhere, the author's stimulating narrative challenges assumptions and turns orthodoxy on its head.

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Using the techniques and insights of clowning, this book draws on original workshops and research to provide practical clowning exercises to develop wider acting practice in innovative ways. The book offers guidance and explanation to key concepts in clowning, including the dynamics of the clown-audience relationship; the relationship between script, text and improvisation; and movement and voice, offering fresh and inspiring angles from which to view actor training. The Clowning Workbook for Actors and Performers is part of the acclaimed Theatre Arts Workbooks series and features its characteristic blend of student-focused exercises with pedagogical tips for teachers.

This timely book looks at social literacy within the revised National Curriculum which places an obligation on schools and teachers to promote social cohesion, community involvement and a sense of social responsibility among young people. Social Literacy, Citizenship Education and the National Curriculum is an introduction to the social purposes and aims contained in the revised National Curriculum. It provides the theory behind the movement for social literacy as well as providing information for teachers, lecturers and policy makers on putting the government's ideas into practice.

Beneath Southern Seas is a stunning visual portrayal of the world of the Australian submarine Force Element Group, as seen through the eyes of photographer Jon Davison and writer Tom Allibone. The open access granted have culminated in a collection of images and interviews that together offer an intimate look at this unique world. This book is based on forty thought provoking and illuminating interviews with the people who make up this unusual occupation, which include: design and construction of the Collins Class boats, sea trials, training, operations, deployments, the captain and crew, and many more. Through their words we discover just what it is that makes one want to become a submariner.

Student teachers have always worked with professionals during their teaching practice, but as teacher training becomes more school based, the role of the mentor has become much more important. Even newer is the emergence of the subject mentor. This book is an examination of the nature of effective mentoring and its contribution to student teacher development. Part One of the book has a broad perspective and looks at policy developments and the differing approaches to teacher education. Part Two explores central issues which have emerged in the author's research with mentors. It identifies tendencies in subject mentoring which characterise the work of subject mentors in schools, and key aspects of mentoring are examined, such as collaborative teaching, observation and the practice of discursive mentoring.

Pat is a modern day mendicant. He walks the streets of a northern city. After a moment of epiphany twenty years earlier, he leaves his job, his house and his possessions behind to take up a life of wandering and helping people. One day, he dramatically rescues a child and becomes feted first as a hero and then a saint. The media then discovers him and he becomes a world wide phenomenon. But things go wrong for him as accusation of crimes past and present are alleged and his world is turned upside down.