Smallest Circles First
Exploring Teacher Reconciliatory Praxis through Drama Education
Published on 16. June 2022
Book
Hardback
186 pages
978-1-4875-0549-3 (ISBN)
Description
Drawing from studies with pre- and in-service teachers in Quebec, Smallest Circles First looks at how teacher agency engages with the educational calls to action from Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Using drama education and theatre, Smallest Circles First explores how the classroom can be used as a liminal educational site to participate in reconciliatory praxis.
Smallest Circles First presents several arts-based educational research examples that illustrate how the arts provide a space for students, teachers, and communities to explore and learn about reconciliation praxis and responsibilities. By implementing arts-based counter-narratives set against settler Canadian history and geography, Smallest Circles First considers the implications of systemic racism, colonization, and political, social, and economic ramifications of governmental policies. Tangible examples from the book showcase how teachers and students can use the arts to learn specifically about their responsibilities in engaging with Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, in addition to how this work can still meet curricular learning outcomes.
Smallest Circles First presents several arts-based educational research examples that illustrate how the arts provide a space for students, teachers, and communities to explore and learn about reconciliation praxis and responsibilities. By implementing arts-based counter-narratives set against settler Canadian history and geography, Smallest Circles First considers the implications of systemic racism, colonization, and political, social, and economic ramifications of governmental policies. Tangible examples from the book showcase how teachers and students can use the arts to learn specifically about their responsibilities in engaging with Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, in addition to how this work can still meet curricular learning outcomes.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Toronto
Canada
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
5 b&w illustrations, 3 b&w figures, 2 b&w tables
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
370 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4875-0549-3 (9781487505493)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Mindy R. Carter is an associate professor and the director of teacher education at McGill University.
Content
Foreword by Tom Dearhouse
1.Starting with the Smallest Circles First
Teacher Agency, Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and the Arts Curriculum
Language, Culture, and Religion in Quebec Education
Are the Arts the Answer?
Vignettes
About This Book
2. Walk a Mile in Someone Else's Shoes: Situating Theories and Methods
Identity, Subjectivity, and Posthumanism
Arts-Based Educational Research (ABER)
Narrative Inquiry
Vignettes and Constant Comparison for Data Analysis
Making Sense of the Data, Saturation, and Validity
3. We Start Here: Narratives, Vignettes, and Analysis
Narratives
Monologue: I'm Still Canadian, Dad!
Appropriation and Embodiment
Centring Oneself within a Community of Practice
Discussion
4. Weaving Together Understandings across Vignettes
Theme 1: Risk and Learning as Rupture
Theme 2: Belonging
Theme 3: Counter-narratives
5. Full circle
Unfolding's
Towards an Instructional Model for Belonging and Becoming by Learning through/with Drama
Learning Responsibilities
New Directions: Learning beyond the arts
Coming full Circle
Appendices
Appendix 1: Sing the Brave Song: This Isn't Over!
Appendix 2: Reconciliation!
Appendix 3: Monologue: I'm Still Canadian, Dad!
Glossary
References
1.Starting with the Smallest Circles First
Teacher Agency, Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and the Arts Curriculum
Language, Culture, and Religion in Quebec Education
Are the Arts the Answer?
Vignettes
About This Book
2. Walk a Mile in Someone Else's Shoes: Situating Theories and Methods
Identity, Subjectivity, and Posthumanism
Arts-Based Educational Research (ABER)
Narrative Inquiry
Vignettes and Constant Comparison for Data Analysis
Making Sense of the Data, Saturation, and Validity
3. We Start Here: Narratives, Vignettes, and Analysis
Narratives
Monologue: I'm Still Canadian, Dad!
Appropriation and Embodiment
Centring Oneself within a Community of Practice
Discussion
4. Weaving Together Understandings across Vignettes
Theme 1: Risk and Learning as Rupture
Theme 2: Belonging
Theme 3: Counter-narratives
5. Full circle
Unfolding's
Towards an Instructional Model for Belonging and Becoming by Learning through/with Drama
Learning Responsibilities
New Directions: Learning beyond the arts
Coming full Circle
Appendices
Appendix 1: Sing the Brave Song: This Isn't Over!
Appendix 2: Reconciliation!
Appendix 3: Monologue: I'm Still Canadian, Dad!
Glossary
References