Urban Playmaking

Urban Playmaking

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  • Author: Bethany Nelson
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1000341372
  • Category : Performing Arts
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 184

This book explores the concept of playmaking and activism through three research projects in which culturally and linguistically diverse high school students and young adults created original theatre around the issues that inform their lives and constrain their futures. Each study discussed by the author is considered through the lens of one or more best practices. The outcomes of the playmaking experiences, communicated through detailed ethnographic data and the voices of student participants, make a strong case for using what we already know about teaching to positively impact gross inequities of outcome for culturally and linguistically diverse students. This study will be of great interest to students, scholars, and practitioners in Applied Theatre, Theatre Education, and Art Therapy.


Drama and Theatre in Urban Contexts

Drama and Theatre in Urban Contexts

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  • Author: Kathleen Gallagher
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1317849884
  • Category : Drama
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 158

Urban theatre can be described as theatre made with or by those whose lives are marked by the urban landscape and its social limits and possibilities. At the heart of this text lies the question of how theatre can illuminate the urban and how theatre is illuminated by the urban. The city, like a play, is a space where everything adopts multiple meanings. It is an objective thought and a subjective experience, a charged and symbolic thing, as well as a real, material, lived reality. The chapters in this book illustrate the theatre’s uncanny ability to narrate and symbolize the physical and psychic space of the city. Running through all of the pieces presented are the themes of power and of young people’s sense of agency within the structures they dwell in and are shaped by. Through drama education and applied theatre practices, the affinity between the urban and its theatres is radically replaced by marginal spaces, boulevards and schools. As Guillermo Gómez-Peña suggests, the theatre has gone to the people to serve their local and immediate need for a means of holding the urban and the self so that both can be interrogated and re-imagined; so that the various dystopias of urban existence can be envisaged as places of urban solidarity and as utopias, at least, of the mind. This book was originally published as a special issue of Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance.


Participatory Theatre and the Urban Everyday in South Africa

Participatory Theatre and the Urban Everyday in South Africa

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  • Author: Alexandra Halligey
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1000769739
  • Category : Performing Arts
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 279

This book explores theatre and performance as participatory research practices for exploring the everyday of the city. Taking an inner-city suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa as its central case study, the book considers how theatre and performance might be both useful practical tools in considering the everyday city, as well as conceptual lenses for understanding it. The author establishes an understanding of space as ever evolving and formed through the ongoing relationship between things, human and non-human, and considers how theatre and performance offer useful paradigms for learning about and working with city spaces. As ephemeral, embodied, material artistic practices, theatre and performance mirror the nature of everyday life. The book discusses theatre and performance games and placemaking processes as offering valuable ways of discovering daily acts of place-making and providing insights that more conventional research methods may not allow. Yet the book also considers how seeing daily city life as a kind of performance, a kind of theatre in its own right, helps to further understandings of city spaces as ever evolving through complex webs of relationships. This book will be of interest to academics, academic practitioners and post-graduate students in the fields of theatre and performance studies, urban studies and cultural geography.


International Perspectives on Drama and Citizenship Education

International Perspectives on Drama and Citizenship Education

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  • Author: Nicholas McGuinn
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1000467775
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 172

This book brings together respected international academics and practitioners from citizenship and drama to debate, share their experiences and plan a way forward for academic and professional best practice in drama and citizenship education for a democratic society. Drawing on international contributions, the chapters explore fundamental ideas about theatre and drama from a global perspective with connections made to action and identity. The main section of the book showcases authors from around the world discussing their perspectives of what is happening within particular countries and exploring a range of ideas and issues that relate to vitally important matters including community, socialism, post-colonialism, diversity, inclusion and more. The final section of the book brings together teams of authors from citizenship and drama education, who discuss the essential elements of citizenship education and encourage insight and practical collaboration from drama experts. The book is unique in presenting dynamic interaction between citizenship and drama experts and encouraging academics and professionals to develop their own work in these areas. It will be of great interest to academics, researchers and students in the fields of citizenship education, drama education and all those interested in promoting social justice through education.


Urban's Legends

Urban's Legends

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  • Publisher: Sports Publishing LLC
  • ISBN: 9781596700642
  • Category : Sports & Recreation
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 138

Undefeated and undisputed the two most appropriate words to describe the greatest season in Utah football history. An undefeated regular season and the outright Mountain West championship are just the beginning of the memories provided by the 2004 Utah Utes football team as they prepare for a run at the national championship.The eye-popping new book, Urban?s Legends: Utah?s 2004 Championship Season, is packed with full-color photos and will take Utah fans on a game-by-game journey through the Utes? triumphant 2004 season and their first trip to a BCS bowl game. It is filled with stories, game wraps, features, and stats first found in the pages of The Salt Lake Tribune, Utah?s largest and most highly respected daily newspaper.Also included in the book are profiles of the Utes? biggest stars, like Steve Savoy, Marty Johnson, Steve Fifita, Alex Smith, and, of course, coach Urban Meyer. Urban?s Legends: Utah?s 2004 Championship Season will prove to be a cherished keepsake and a truly special way for Utah football fans to remember a remarkable season. It will be available only 10 days after Utah?s win over BYU that clinched both the undefeated season and the Mountain West Championship.


Playmaker

Playmaker

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  • Author: Jami Davenport
  • Publisher: Cedrona Enterprises
  • ISBN: 1732942099
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 266

KADEN: My teammates think she's married. I think it's more than that. Other than her name, I don't know anything about her, but I can't get enough of her. She's my obsession, my world, my everything. If only she would let me in, tell me why she's terrified, why she stays in the shadows, why she can't be seen in public. Then, as quickly as she came into my life, she disappears. DELANEY: As the daughter of a powerful politician, I was my boyfriend's perfect alibi until I wasn't. My life is in danger, and I have no choice but to disappear. I met Kaden in a bar, and the attraction was instant. We can't keep our hands off each other, but I'm careful not to tell him too much. He can't know who I am or why I'm running. My safety—and his—depends on it. Then my ex's conviction is overturned, he's out of prison, and witnesses are dying. I have to run again and leave behind the one man I'll never forget. But fate has a way of interfering, and this time, leaving isn't so easy.Keywords: hockey romance, hockey novel, sports romance, Seattle, hockey, workplace, office romance, urban romance, alpha male, sports hero, hockey star, professional hockey, hockey players, bad boy romance, wealthy romance, wealthy hero, new adult romance, puck brothers, roommates, Redemption, second chance, heroine in peril, missing, mystery, danger. For fans of: Helena Hunting, Elle Kennedy, Catherine Gayle, Toni Aleo, Jami Davenport, Kelly Jamieson, Sarina Bowen, Sawyer Bennett, Carly Phillips, Kennedy Ryan, Nana Malone, Brenda Rothert, Elise Faber, Kate Meador, Victoria Denault, Mira Lyn Kelly, Odette Stone, Jennifer Lazaris, Lisa B Kamps, Cathryn Fox, Samantha Lind, Samantha Whiskey, Stacey Lynn


How Drama Activates Learning

How Drama Activates Learning

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  • Author: Michael Anderson
  • Publisher: A&C Black
  • ISBN: 1441194169
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 336

How Drama Activates Learning: Contemporary Research and Practice draws together leaders in drama education and applied theatre from across the globe, including authors from Europe, North America and Australasia. It explores how learning can be activated when drama pedagogies and philosophies are applied across diverse contexts and for varied purposes. The areas explored include: · history · literacy, oracy and listening · health and human relationships education · science · democracy, social justice and global citizenship education · bullying and conflict management · criticality · digital technologies · additional language learning Drawing on a range of theoretical perspectives, the contributors present case studies of drama and applied theatre work in school and community settings, providing rich descriptions of practice accompanied by detailed analysis underpinned by the theoretical perspectives of key thinkers from both within and beyond the field of drama.


Key Concepts in Theatre/Drama Education

Key Concepts in Theatre/Drama Education

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  • Author: S. Schonmann
  • Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
  • ISBN: 9460913326
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 378

Key Concepts in Theatre Drama Education provides the first comprehensive survey of contemporary research trends in theatre/drama education. It is an intriguing rainbow of thought, celebrating a journey across three fields of scholarship: theatre, education and modes of knowing. Hitherto no other collection of key concepts has been published in theatre /drama education. Fifty seven entries, written by sixty scholars from across the world aim to convey the zeitgeist of the field. The book’s key innovation lies in its method of writing, through collaborative networking, an open peer-review process, and meaning-making involving all contributors. Within the framework of key-concept entries, readers will find valuable judgments and the viewpoints of researchers from North and South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, New Zealand and Australia. The volume clearly shows that drama/theatre educators and researchers have created a language, with its own grammar and lucid syntax. The concepts outlined convey the current knowledge of scholars, highlighting what they consider significant. Entries cover interdependent topics on teaching and learning, aesthetics and ethics, curricula and history, culture and community, various populations and their needs, theatre for young people, digital technology, narrative and pedagogy, research methods, Shakespeare and Brecht, other various modes of theatre and the education of theatre teachers. It aims to serve as the standard reference book for theatre/drama education researchers, policymakers, practitioners and students around the world. A basic companion for researchers, students, and teachers, this sourcebook outlines the key concepts that make the field prominent in the sphere of Arts Education.


The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Young People

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Young People

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  • Author: Selina Busby
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
  • ISBN: 1000689123
  • Category : Performing Arts
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 733

This companion interrogates the relationship between theatre and youth from a global perspective, taking in performances and theatre made by, for, and about young people. These different but interrelated forms of theatre are addressed through four critical themes that underpin the ways in which analysis of contemporary theatre in relation to young people can be framed: political utterances – exploring the varied ways theatre becomes a platform for political utterance as a process of dialogic thinking and critical imagining; critical positioning – examining youth theatre work that navigates the sensitive, dynamic, and complex terrains in which young people live and perform; pedagogic frames – outlining a range of contexts and programmes in which young people learn to make and understand theatre that reflects their artistic capacities and aesthetic strategies; applying performance – discussing a range of projects and companies whose work has been influential in the development of youth theatre within specific contexts. Providing critical, research-informed, and research-based discussions on the intersection between young people, their representation, and their participation in theatre, this is a landmark text for students, scholars, and practitioners whose work and thinking involves theatre and young people.


Behavioural and Ecological Consequences of Urban Life in Birds

Behavioural and Ecological Consequences of Urban Life in Birds

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  • Author: Caroline Isaksson
  • Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
  • ISBN: 2889454975
  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 364

Urbanization is next to global warming the largest threat to biodiversity. Indeed, it is becoming increasingly evident that many bird species get locally extinct as a result of urban development. However, many bird species benefit from urbanization, especially through the abundance of human-provided resources, and increase in abundance and densities. These birds are intriguing to study in relation to its resilience and adaption to urban environments, but also in relation to its susceptibility and the potential costs of urban life. This Research Topic consisting of 30 articles (one review, two meta-analyzes and 27 original data papers) provides insights into species and population responses to urbanization through diverse lenses, including biogeography, community ecology, behaviour, life history evolution, and physiology.