The Dramatic Arts and Cultural Studies: Educating Against the Grain

ISBN-13: 9780815337270 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 202 str.

Kathleen S. Berry;Berry Kathleen

Opis

With the current, fast-paced, major philosophical challenges to modern life and its institutional constructs, artists and teachers involved in the dramatic arts are faced with demands to create a lucid postmodern play of ideas and forms. This text presents a wide range of contemporary theories borrowed from cultural studies augmented with practical implications that support dramatic artists in their struggle to create possible multiple realities for a postmodern future.

Recenzje

"Teachers and teachers-to-be who are concerned with educational change through the arts will be strengthened by the support in theory and pratice the author offers in this excellent resource." -- Professor David Booth, OISE, University of Toronto
"In her book, Kathy Berry has begun to rethink the role of dramatic arts and its place in the curriculum. She begins with samples of authentic classroom experiences, and interweaves the theory past and present that now drives drama educators into moving beyond what has been done to a postmodern context of what could be done. Teachers and teachers-to-be who are concerned with educational change through the arts will be strengthened by the support in theory and practice the author offers in this excellent resource." -- Professor David Booth, OISE, University of Toronto

Spis treści

Preface by Shirley Steinberg, Acknowledgments, Introduction by Dorothy Heathcote, 1. A Modern World in Crisis, 2. Cultural Studies through Theater, 3. Major Tenets of Cultural Studies, 4. Deconstruction of Cultural Constructions, 5. Hegemonic Resonances, 6. Acting against the Grain, Bibliography, Index, About the Author

O autorze

Kathleen S. Berry is a Professor of Education in Cultural Studies, Drama and Literacy at the University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada. Her work is centered on educational worlds and the impact of cultural studies and criticism on theories and practices in pedagogy, drama, and multi-literacies.