1st Edition

Urban Playmaking Constructivist Teaching with a Radical Agenda

By Bethany Nelson Copyright 2021
194 Pages
by Routledge

194 Pages
by Routledge

194 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

Foreword by Jonothan Neelands

Acknowledgements

List of abbreviations

  1. Introduction
  2. Methodology
  3. On the Shoulders of Giants
  4. Working on Wings to Fly
  5. Childhood is Fun
  6. Conclusion
  7. Epilogue

 

 

 

Biography

Bethany Nelson is Assistant Professor and Graduate Program Director of Theatre Education at Emerson College, USA.

Urban Playmaking is winner of the Distinguished Book Award from the American Alliance of Theatre and Education.