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From Theatre to Performance Studies: Collaborating on Curriculum Change with Secondary Level Dramatic Arts Teachers
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Prendergast, Monica; Shenfield, Robyn – Research in Drama Education, 2019
This essay presents a small-scale interview study interested in finding out how experienced secondary level drama teachers responded to their reading of a newly developed curriculum in performance studies. The curriculum was developed with funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the University of Victoria…
Descriptors: Theater Arts, Art Education, Secondary School Teachers, Art Teachers
Utopian Performatives and the Social Imaginary: Toward a New Philosophy of Drama/Theater Education
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Prendergast, Monica – Journal of Aesthetic Education, 2011
Drama/theater education lives in the tension of being a discipline rooted in the fine arts and humanities that has been transplanted into the social science of education. This paper suggests that a more aesthetic and philosophical reflection on what drama/theater does and can do in educational settings frees us from the scientized and instrumental…
Descriptors: Theater Arts, Drama, Art Education, Philosophy
Reflective Praxis through Narrative and Poetry: Performing "Peace Mum"
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Prendergast, Monica – Research in Drama Education, 2010
In the autumn of 2007 and spring of 2008 the author performed an adapted version of Dario Fo and Franca Rame's one-woman play "Peace Mom" (retitled for Canadian audiences as "Peace Mum") about American mother and peace activist Cindy Sheehan. The play was performed for University of Victoria Applied Theatre students and also in a number of…
Descriptors: Audiences, Experiential Learning, Poetry, Dramatic Play
Creative Dancing
Prendergast, Monica – Instructor, 1971
Descriptors: Dance, Theater Arts
The "Ideal Spectator": Dramatic Chorus, Collective Creation, and Curriculum
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Prendergast, Monica – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 2004
It is always ourselves we see on the stage.? we struggle to make human meaning and sense from what we see before us. (O'Neill, 1995, p. 76) Theatre is the enactment of possible worlds. It is performed in a middle space owned by neither author nor reader.? It is a space for negotiation. It is the middle place of the curriculum. (Grumet, 1998, p.…
Descriptors: Theater Arts, Curriculum Development, Foreign Countries
"Playing Attention": Contemporary Aesthetics and Performing Arts Audience Education
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Prendergast, Monica – Journal of Aesthetic Education, 2004
This essay draws on the contemporary aesthetic theories of four writers -Hans-Georg Gadamer, Paul Ricoeur, Paul Thom, and James O. Young-who represent both the continental and analytic contemporary philosophical schools of thought. Each writer offers valuable perspectives on issues in aesthetic education pertaining to a key question in my…
Descriptors: Audiences, Audience Response, Theater Arts, Performance
'Shaped like a Question Mark': Found Poetry from Herbert Blau's "The Audience"
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Prendergast, Monica – Research in Drama Education, 2004
Performance theorist Herbert Blau's "The Audience" (Baltimore and London, Johns Hopkins Press, 1990) is an important yet neglected theoretical text on theatre audience. Deconstructive, dense and allusive in nature, Blau's text creates a real challenge for his reader. This paper presents a study of "The Audience" employing what I am calling…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Poetry, Audience Response, Doctoral Dissertations