Puppetry in Theatre and Arts Education: Head, Hands and Heart : Head, Hands and Heart

Winner of a Nancy Staub Award for Excellence in Publications on the Art of Puppetry Connecting the art of puppetry with deeper learning for children, this workbook offers a comprehensive guide on how to bring puppetry into the classroom. It places puppet design, construction and manipulation at the heart of arts education and as a key contributor to 'manual intelligence' in young people. Packed with practical, illustrated exercises using materials and technology readily available to teachers, Puppetry in Theatre and Arts Education shows you how the craft can enliven and enrich any classroom environment, and offers helpful links between puppetry, the curriculum and other aspects of education. Informed by developments in assessments and cognitive research, this book features approachable puppetry activities, educational strategies and lesson plans for teachers that expand any syllabus and unlock new methods of learning, including: - Making puppets from basic materials and everyday objects - Puppetizing children's literature - Puppetizing science - Film-making with puppets Puppetry in Theatre and Arts Education is a core text for arts education courses as well as an essential addition to any teacher's arsenal of teaching strategies. Recipient of the Nancy Staub Publications Award from UNIMA-USA, 2022 Connecting the art of puppetry with deeper learning for children, this workbook offers a comprehensive guide on how to bring puppetry into the classroom. It places puppet design, construction and manipulation at the heart of arts education and as a key contributor to 'manual intelligence' in young people. Packed with practical, illustrated exercises using materials and technology readily available to teachers, Puppetry in Theatre and Arts Education shows you how the craft can enliven and enrich any classroom environment, and offers helpful links between puppetry, the curriculum and other aspects of education. Informed by developments in assessments and cognitive research, this book features approachable puppetry activities, educational strategies and lesson plans for teachers that expand any syllabus and unlock new methods of learning, - Making puppets from basic materials and everyday objects - Puppetizing children's literature - Puppetizing science - Film-making with puppets Puppetry in Theatre and Arts Education is a core text for arts education courses as well as an essential addition to any teacher's arsenal of teaching strategies. "Puppetry in Theatre and Arts Education: Head, Hands and Heart is a textbook for students and teachers of theatre in education, schoolteachers, teaching artists outside of traditional school environments and puppetry enthusiasts, showing how puppetry can enliven classrooms, offering educational strategies and lesson plans to open out any syllabus and unlock new methods of learning. Author Johanna Smith provides fun and inexpensive interdisciplinary puppetry activities for educators and artists. Featuring exercises and essential advice, it places puppet manipulation, design and construction activities in the context of current research on the cognitive impact of arts education and the innovative concept of 'manual intelligence'. Puppetry in Theatre and Arts Education is a core text for theatre education courses as well as an essential addition to any teacher's arsenal of teaching strategies"-- Provided by publisher Cover Contents List of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgments 1 Introduction About My Lesson Plan Structure 2 Johanna’s Newspaper Challenge: Or The Puppetry Test 3 What is a Puppet? The Plastic Bags Lesson 4 Head, Hands, and Heart 5 Everyday Object Puppets 6 The Power of Design: Puppet Metaphors 7 Dwarves Word Cards 7 Chakabesh Traps the Sun: Shadow Puppets and Storytelling 8 Puppetizing Children’s Literature 9 Puppetizing Science: A Cross-Disciplinary Plan for Younger Children 10 Puppet Filmmaking in the Classroom 11 Giant Puppets and Community Celebrations The Fabulous Art of Paper Maché: Version by Johanna 12 Quick and Easy Ideas for Making Puppets 13 Finding Material for Puppetizing Lessons 14 A Plan for Devising a New Puppet Play Conclusion Bibliography Index