
Encountering Texts
The Multicultural Theatre Project and «Minority» Literature
Joi Carr(Author)
Peter Lang Verlag
Published on 25. August 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
250 pages
978-1-4331-2435-8 (ISBN)
Description
Encountering Texts represents the theory and praxis uncovered through an ongoing interdisciplinary arts-based critical pedagogy that engages students in critical self-reflection (disciplined, sustained thinking, requiring engagement) on difference. The Multicultural Theatre Project (MTP) is a dialogical encounter with literature through the dramatic arts. This book provides a blueprint for the multiple ways in which this enacted theory/method can be utilized as a high impact practice toward transformative learning. The significance of minority literature as fertile testing ground for raising and seeking to answer questions about difference is undisputed. To address this dynamic, this research utilizes Hans-Georg Gadamer's hermeneutical method of understanding to engage students in the interpretive process using theatre as methodology. Gadamer's concept, described as a fusion of horizons, provides a methodological approach by which students can bring their own «effective history» to the hermeneutical task. He argues that hidden prejudices keep the interpreter from hearing the text. Thus an awareness of these prejudices leads to an openness that allows the text to speak. The MTP facilitates this kind of subjectivity by engaging the interpreter holistically. This integrative work provides a promising pragmatic interdisciplinary approach to teaching and learning that creates bridges to liberatory knowledge, both cognitively and affectively.
Reviews / Votes
<<An innovative, exciting, and energizing study that introduces new models of transdisciplinary and transformative learning through arts based pedagogy. Theater becomes an important site of encounter and discovery of new modes of consciousness as well as new strategies for the classroom.>>(Wendy Martin, Professor of American Literature and American Studies, Claremont Graduate University) <<An innovative, exciting, and energizing study that introduces new models of transdisciplinary and transformative learning through arts based pedagogy. Theater becomes an important site of encounter and discovery of new modes of consciousness as well as new strategies for the classroom.>>
(Wendy Martin, Professor of American Literature and American Studies, Claremont Graduate University)
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Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Edition type
New edition
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 223 mm
Width: 149 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
374 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4331-2435-8 (9781433124358)
DOI
10.3726/978-1-4539-1639-1
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Joi Carr is Associate Professor of English and Film Studies at Pepperdine University, Seaver College, and serves as the Director of Film Studies and the Director of the Multicultural Theatre Project. She received her PhD in English and film from Claremont Graduate University.
Content
Contents: Encountering Self - Encountering Texts: Rationale and Method - The University: Work Toward Wholeness? (In)Beyond the Classroom: Transformative Learning - Hans-Georg Gadamer's Hermeneutics as Framework - <<Minority>> Literature as Decentering Frame - Praxis Matters: Embodying Texts. Theatre as Method for Encounter - Project Description and Overview - MTP Praxis: Medium for Encounter - Developing Story, Developing Students as Texts - Developing Story: Sample Playwriting - Arts-Based Critical Pedagogy: Strategies for the Classroom - Discovering Through Assessment.