The Heart of Teaching: Empowering Students in the Performing Arts

ISBN-13: 9780415644914 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 162 str.

Stephen Wangh

Opis

This is a book about teaching and learning in the performing arts. Its focus is on the inner dynamics of teaching: the processes by which teachers can promote - or undermine - creativity itself.

Spis treści

Preface  Introduction: What teachers don’t talk about  1. How does learning happen?  2. The via negativa  3. Questions and questioning  4. Listening  5. Feedback  6. Resistance  7. Transference  8. Cultures of oppression and resistance  9. Eros et Charitas  10. The broken heart  11. No mistakes  12. Power and control  13. Silence  14. What are we really teaching?  15. An Afterword about Grading

O autorze

Stephen Wangh is a playwright, director and acting teacher. He has taught at Naropa University and Emerson College (https://files.nyu.edu/sw1/public/), and is Arts Professor Emeritus at New York University. He is the author of An Acrobat of the Heart:A physical approach to acting inspired by the work of Jerzy Grotowski.