Ensemble-building is a practice within drama education that is understood to be a powerful metaphor for democratic living. However, this ongoing work in classrooms also demands that teachers understand and enact a broad, interrelated range of knowledge, skills, and values that support participants' encounters with conflict and representations of…

Outlines a theory of drama as ethical education. Discusses how the concept of positioning can complicate the view of the ethical dimension of ongoing interactions in and out of role. Reveals how dialogic sequencing can create conditions in which students may begin to re-examine the ethical assumptions of their discourses. (PM)