Why Theatre Matters : Urban Youth, Engagement, and a Pedagogy of the Real /

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What makes young people care about themselves, others, their communities, and their futures? In Why Theatre Matters, Kathleen Gallagher uses the drama classroom as a window into the daily challenges of marginalized youth in Toronto, Boston, Taipei, and Lucknow. An ethnographic study which mixes quan...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gallagher, Kathleen (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018]
Temas:
Arts in education > Case studies.
Drama in education > Case studies.
Theater and society > Case studies.
Urban youth > Case studies > Education.
Urban youth > Case studies > Social conditions.
Urban youth > Education > Case studies.
Urban youth > Social conditions > Case studies.
EDUCATION / Multicultural Education.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Figures and Tables
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • WHY THEATRE MATTERS. Urban Youth, Engagement, and a Pedagogy of the Real
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Complexity of People, Conversation, and Space as Data
  • 2. The Social and Pedagogical Context for Engagement
  • 3. The Multidimensionality of Engagement: Academic Achievement, Academic Enthusiasm, Voluntary Initiative, and What the Numbers Tell Us
  • 4. Social Performances: Students and Teachers Inhabit Their Roles
  • 5. Life or Theatre?
  • 6. Up Close and Personal: Unfinished Stories
  • Appendix 1: Social Identity Categories
  • Appendix 2: Tables
  • References
  • Index

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