Nancy Kindelan

Artistic Literacy

Theatre Studies and a Contemporary Liberal Education

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Exploring the ways undergraduate theatre programs can play a significant role in accomplishing the aims and learning outcomes of a contemporary liberal education, Kindelan argues that theatre's signature pedagogy helps all undergraduates become actively engaged in developing critical and value-focused skills.

Produktdetails

• The Arts in Higher Education
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan US / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-137-44559-9
• 2012
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 261g
• ISBN-13: 9781137445599
• ISBN-10: 1137445599
• Artikelnr.: 41083066

Autorenporträt

Nancy Kindelan is Associate Professor in the Theatre Department at Northeastern University, USA, where she teaches dramatic literature courses and directs plays. She has published widely on theatre studies in higher education, dramatic literature, and dramaturgy, including the book Shadows of Realism: Dramaturgy and the Theories and Practices of Modernism (1997). In 2004, Northeastern University presented her with the Presidential Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: A Call to Action PART I: THE MAKINGS OF A CONTEMPORARY LIBERAL EDUCATION The Evolution of the Liberal Arts The Evolution of Theatre Studies Programs A Contemporary Liberal Education PART II: THE PEDAGOGIES AND STRATEGIES OF THEATRE STUDIES Setting the Stage for Learning in the Twenty-First Century Intentional Learning through the Art of the Theatre Artistic Literacy in Action Artistic Literacy and the Twenty-First-Century Workforce

Rezensionen

"Kindelan makes a valuable argument for the appropriateness of including theater studies in a liberal arts curriculum ... This book is a call to action: it arms faculty and administrators with information about recent developments in theater studies' pedagogical goals and approaches to liberal arts education that suggest integrating theater studies in a liberal arts program at institutions of higher education. Summing Up: Recommended. Researchers, faculty, professionals." - CHOICE 'This book does an excellent job of showing how the discipline of theatre studies can provide empowering and transformational experiences for our students. It demonstrates why the performing arts are an essential component of an undergraduate education regardless of the student's intended major. The theatre, just like any discipline, can be explored and experienced through the high-impact pedagogy of undergraduate research.' - Council on Undergraduate Research '[Artistic Literacy] is an incredible resource and needs to be read by everyone in departments of theatre, both within as well as outside the United States. As well, we feel that this is a book that is utterly essential reading for all deans, provosts and administrators within the university context. [It offers] a masterful marshalling of scholarly arguments concerning the shape of current liberal arts degrees and the ways in which theatre can play a crucial role in reconsidering these going forward and does this in an accessible language and with a structure that opens up to readings by people not as invested in theatre. The book was a pleasure to read.' - Committee of the ATHE Outstanding Book Awards 2012