Teaching Strategies for Neurodiversity and Dyslexia in Actor Training: Sensing Shakespeare

ISBN-13: 9781138311848 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 218 str.

Petronilla Whitfield

Opis

Teaching Strategies for Neurodiversity and Dyslexia in Actor Training addresses some of the challenges met by acting students with dyslexia and highlights the abilities demonstrated by individuals with specific learning differences in actor training.

Spis treści

Part 1: The Background to the Investigatory Practice  1. Overview and structure of the book  2. Pedagogy and education in actor training: towards an emancipatory practice  3. David - the inspiration and initiator of my study  4. Matters of dyslexia  5. Shakespeare as laboratory and reader as creator  Part 2: The Investigatory Practice and Teaching Strategies One to Six  6. The theoretical perspectives and methodology: attaining a verstehen through action research underpinned by case study  7. Finding the way in: picture thinking  8. Images as visible thought, acting stimulus and mnemonic pegs: Action Research (Cycle One) and Teaching Strategy One  9. The physical path and Stanislavski’s actions: action in pursuit of the objective or as an anchor of verbal meaning?  10. A trial of the physical actions method inspired by Stanislavski: Action Research (Cycle Two) and Teaching Strategy Two  11. Grasping towards being present in the text, entangling meaning into memory: Action Research (Cycle Three) and Teaching Strategy Three  12. The creation of mnemotechnics towards a memoria rerum (memory for things and ideas) and memoria verboram (memory for words)  13. The Micro and Macro strategy - deconstructing and reconstructing meaning and significance in Shakespeare’s text towards performance: Action Research (Cycle Four and Five) and Teaching Strategy Four and Five  14. Interpretive mnemonics, distributed cognition and authenticity of self: the research findings, Action Research (Cycle Six) and Teaching Strategy Six

O autorze

Dr. Petronilla Whitfield is Associate Professor in Voice and Acting at the Arts University Bournemouth, UK. She holds a PhD in Arts Pedagogy from Warwick University and an MA in Voice Studies from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. Trained originally as an actor at Arts Educational Schools, she was a professional actor for twenty years. She has taught voice and acting at leading British actor training institutions and universities for eighteen years.