UID:
edocfu_9958999047902883
Format:
1 online resource
ISBN:
9781442627574
Series Statement:
Heritage
Content:
Canada boasts a remarkable number of talented theatre artists, scholars, and educators. How Theatre Educates brings together essays and other contributions from members of these diverse communities to advocate for a broader and more inclusive understanding of theatre as an educative force.Organized to reflect the variety of contexts in which professionals are making, researching, and teaching drama, this anthology presents a wide range of articles, essays, reminiscences, songs, poems, plays, and interviews to elucidate the relationship between theatre practice and pedagogy, and to highlight the overriding theme: namely, that keeping 'education' – with its curriculum components of dramatic literature and theatre studies in formal school settings – separate from 'theatre' outside of the classroom, greatly diminishes both enterprises.In this volume, award-winning playwrights, directors, actors, and scholars reflect on the many ways in which those working in theatre studios, school classrooms, and on stages throughout the country are engaged in teaching and learning processes that are particular to the arts and especially genres of theatre. Situating theatre practitioners as actors in a larger socio-cultural enterprise, How Theatre Educates is a fascinating and lively inquiry into pedagogy and practice that will be relevant to teachers and students of drama, educators, artists working in theatre, and the theatre-going public.ContributorsMaja ArdalDavid BoothPatricia CanoDiane FlacksKathleen GallagherJohn GilbertSky GilbertJim GilesLinda GriffithsTomson HighwayJanice HladkiCornelia HooglandAnn-Marie MacDonaldLori McDougallJohn MurrellDomenico PietropaoloWalter PitmanRichard RoseJason ShermanLynn SlotkinLarry SwartzJudith ThompsonGuillermo VerdecchiaBelarie Zatzman
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Preface --
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I. INTRODUCTION --
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Emergent Conceptions in Theatre Pedagogy and Production /
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Towards an Understanding of Theatre for Education /
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II. THEATRE, THE ARTS, PEDAGOGY, AND PERFORMANCE --
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'I Will Tear You to Pieces': The Classroom as Theatre /
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The Monologue Project: Drama as a Form of Witnessing /
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The Professional Theatre and the Teaching of Drama in Ontario Universities /
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National Symposium on Arts Education: Opening Address, 1-2 July 2001 /
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III. CRITICAL VOICES --
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The Poetics: A Play /
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Confessions of a Theatre Addict /
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Inside Out: Notes on Theatre in a Tenderized, Tranquillized, 'Mediatized' Society /
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Improvisation and Risk: A Dialogue with Linda Griffiths /
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IV. CULTURE, COMMUNITY, AND THEATRE PRACTICES --
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Seven Things about Cahoots Theatre Projects /
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Negotiating Drama Practices: Struggles in Racialized Relations of Theatre Production and Theatre Research /
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Drama through the Eyes of Faith /
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As the World Turns: The Changing Role of Popular Drama in International Development Education /
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The Other Side of Alternative Theatre: An Interview with Sky Gilbert /
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V. THEATRE FOR AND WITH YOUNG AUDIENCES --
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Theatre for Young Audiences and Grown-up Theatre: Two Solitudes /
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Theatre for Young People: Does It Matter? /
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The Incredible Adventures of Mary Jane Mosquito: Lyrics to Tatty Cake9 /
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The Land inside Coyote: Reconceptualizing Human Relationships to Place through Drama /
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VI. CREATIVE PROCESSES, AUDIENCE, AND FORM --
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The Significance of Theatre: A Commencement Address /
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Education through Empathy: Using Laughter as a Way In /
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Intellectual Passions, Feminist Commitments, and Divine Comedies: A Dialogue with Ann-Marie MacDonald /
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Contributors --
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References
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In English.
Language:
English
DOI:
10.3138/9781442627574
URL:
https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442627574
