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Publication Date: 2019
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Living and Learning at the Intersections of Identity and Community: Facilitating Theatre of the Oppressed Workshops with Educators
Foster-Shaner, Liz; Sondel, Beth; Generett, Gretchen; King, Michelle
Educational Forum, v83 n4 p351-364 2019
For the past year, we have been co-facilitating Theatre of the Oppressed (TO) workshops across Pittsburgh, tailored specifically toward local educators and educational activists. The overarching intentions of these workshops were twofold: (a) to cultivate educators' understanding of and response to how power and privilege operate in educational systems; and (b) to provide useful tools for educators to continue these conversations and dismantle systems of oppression in their places of practice. As a collective of facilitators and in our workshops, we attempt to create, even if briefly, a beloved community where participants are invited to bring their full, human selves and engage in nuanced reflection in the hopes of creating a more compassionate, just, and equitable society. Like our workshops, the purpose of this article is both practical and theoretical: (a) to provide tangible tools to those readers interested in facilitating TO workshops for educators; and (b) to contribute to our understanding of how TO can serve to cultivate educators' analysis of oppression.
Descriptors: Theater Arts, Power Structure, Activism, Self Concept, Faculty Development, Teacher Workshops, Advantaged, Social Differences, Social Justice, Equal Education, Teaching Methods, Teacher Educators, Teacher Attitudes, Facilitators (Individuals), Personal Narratives
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Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh)
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