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Cook, Christopher; Belliveau, George – LEARNing Landscapes, 2018
Community members and staff at the University of British Columbia (UBC) Learning Exchange collectively created a theatre piece, based on stories from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside (DTES), entitled "Voices UP!" This article examines the impact this project had on four DTES community members who took part in the collective creation…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Dramatic Play, Art Therapy, School Community Programs
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Kerby, Holly Walter; DeKorver, Brittland K.; Cantor, Joanne – International Journal of Science Education, 2018
Advocates for the use of story in science education assert that it can bolster understanding of science concepts in classroom settings and enhance interest and engagement. However, only a handful of classroom studies confirm these claims, and many of them use story as an introduction, not the primary method of content delivery. Reasons for this…
Descriptors: Science Education, Scientific Concepts, Science Interests, Teaching Methods
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Balyasnikova, Natalia; Higgins, Sarah; Hume, Matt – TESOL Journal, 2018
This article describes the process of using an ethnodrama while working with older adults learning English as an additional language. By examining a 4-month-long period of Seniors Drama Club, created to offer theatre-based language learning experiences for Vancouver's immigrant senior population, the authors draw attention to the complex learning…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Drama
Darg, Julie A. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Though there has been a great deal of research on the transition into college, there has been relatively little research on the transition out of college. This is particularly true in relation to theatre arts majors. Though recent graduates face many challenges post-college, there has been minimal exploration done on how graduates experience…
Descriptors: Expectation, Theater Arts, Majors (Students), College Graduates
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Dinham, Judith; Williams, Paul – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2019
While the known health impacts of sedentary lifestyles have focused attention on children's outdoor activity, the development of their physical literacy -- the physiological, social, cultural, cognitive, expressive, and psychological dimensions of their physicality -- is much less in focus. Developing children's physical literacy is embedded in…
Descriptors: Children, Physical Education, Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers
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Garcia, Betty; Crifasi, Elizabeth; Dessel, Adrienne B. – Journal of Social Work Education, 2019
Creation of a classroom environment safe enough for students to expess their perspectives, hear classmates views and engage in classroom dialogue remains a major challenge in social work teaching. Intergroup dialogue and Theatre of the Oppressed are two approaches that effectively meet these challenges. Intergroup dialogue offers a systematic…
Descriptors: Power Structure, Theater Arts, Teaching Methods, Self Concept
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Bhatia, Kiran Vinod; Pathak-Shelat, Manisha – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2019
The authors illustrate how applied theater practices were used in media literacy classes to educate students about acts of religious discrimination in their societies. These practices helped students acknowledge their role in reifying or dismantling these prejudices in and through their classroom interactions with their peers from other religions…
Descriptors: Theater Arts, Literacy Education, Social Bias, Religious Cultural Groups
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Whorton, Rachel Tuggle – Teaching Artist Journal, 2016
This article explores the triumphs and tensions inherent in coaching adolescent male singers, particularly when blending skill-building and performance preparation.
Descriptors: Music Education, After School Education, Males, High School Students
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Walter Kerby, Holly; DeKorver, Brittland K.; Cantor, Joanne; Weiland, Marcia J.; Babiarz, Christopher L. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2016
Demonstration shows are a widely used form of Informal Science Education. While there is evidence that the shows are highly enjoyable, little work has been done to investigate the cognitive impacts of these shows. This article describes the development and production of "The Boiling Point," a show that uses the structure of a play to…
Descriptors: Science Education, Informal Education, Teaching Methods, Questionnaires
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Brown, Nathan; Dasen, Ann; Trommer-Beardslee, Heather – Journal of Dance Education, 2016
This article describes how the authors completed a project at Central Michigan University (CMU) with undergraduate theater majors and minors and dance minors as part of the annual mainstage dance concert. Although the concert is predominantly choreographed and designed by CMU faculty, students are engaged in every step of the performance and…
Descriptors: Music, Dance, Musical Composition, Lighting
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Rajan, Rekha S. – Music Educators Journal, 2016
The idea of audience etiquette brings with it specific expectations influenced by both the social context and the performance genre. While audience response has traditionally been viewed as passive, performers are finding new and innovative ways of actively engaging young audiences, seeking immediate response, inviting exploration, and encouraging…
Descriptors: Audiences, Music Activities, Music Education, Theater Arts
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Armstrong, Sara; Braunschneider, Theresa – To Improve the Academy, 2016
This article focuses on the use of theatre as a mode of creative scholarship, from the research involved in sketch creation to the presentation of that research to academic audiences. We particularly focus on a specific sketch developed by the CRLT Players--one that explores the consequences of subtle discrimination faced by women scientists in…
Descriptors: Scholarship, Creative Activities, Theater Arts, Educational Research
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Muftic, Sanjin – Research in Drama Education, 2016
"A Day, Across," performed by the CityVarsity School of Creative Arts at the Cape Town Fringe 2014, was a student production that investigated the link between the youth of South Africa and the centennial of the start of World War I. This paper presents a brief analysis of the rehearsal process as well as certain performance sequences in…
Descriptors: History, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, Human Body
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Nesbitt, Eleanor – British Journal of Religious Education, 2020
Caste, and awareness of it, have been a persistent, though changing, feature of South Asian communities' experience in the UK. In twenty-first century Britain the issue of caste has come to the fore and has been hotly contested, in relation to equality legislation. In this wider context, the present article maps some of caste's historical…
Descriptors: Social Class, Asians, Educational History, Higher Education
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Szasz, Maria – Honors in Practice, 2017
Since spring 2012, the author has taught a 300-level Theatre and Human Rights class in the University of New Mexico Honors College. One of the centerpieces of honors education is careful research and thorough analysis of what is taught and why it is taught. In creating the honors class Theatre and Human Rights, the author explored how she would…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Honors Curriculum, Civil Rights, Teaching Methods
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