Kathleen Gallagher

Why Theatre Matters

Urban Youth, Engagement, and a Pedagogy of the Real

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Kathleen Gallagher uses the drama classroom as a window into the daily challenges of marginalized youth in Toronto, Boston, Taipei, and Lucknow.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. September 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 163mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 599g
• ISBN-13: 9781442649576
• ISBN-10: 1442649577
• Artikelnr.: 41029186

Autorenporträt

By Kathleen Gallagher Foreword by Jonothan Neelands

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter One: The Complexity of People, Conversation, and Space as Data
Chapter Two: The Social and Pedagogical Context for Engagement
Chapter Three: The Multi-dimensionality of Engagement: Academic
Achievement, Academic Enthusiasm, Voluntary Initiative and What the Numbers
Tell Us
Chapter Four: Social Performances: Students and Teachers Inhabit Their
Roles
Chapter Five: Life or Theatre?
Chapter Six: Up Close and Personal: Unfinished Stories
Appendix 1: Social Identity Categories
Appendix 2: Tables
References