Teaching theatre today : pedagogical views of theatre in higher education

Through thirteen essays, Teaching Theatre Today addresses the changing nature of educational theory, curricula, and teaching methods in theatre programs of colleges and universities of the United States and Great Britain. Fully revised and updated, this new edition of Teaching Theatre Today addresses the changing nature of educational theory, curricula, and teaching methods in theatre programs of colleges and universities of the United States and Great Britain. This book offers both historical and theoretical insights into the pedagogy of theatre in colleges and universities during the twentieth century and into the twenty-first. Topics Include:* Teaching devising * Theories of theater education * Current state of training for teachers of theatre Front Matter....Pages i-xvii Introduction....Pages 1-6 Changing Views of Knowledge and the Struggle for Undergraduate Theatre Curriculum, 1900–1980....Pages 7-30 On Theatre History: Historical Study in the Theatre Curriculum....Pages 31-49 The Teaching of Acting in American Colleges and Universities, 1920–1960....Pages 51-63 The Pedagogy of Directing, 1920–1990: Seventy Years of Teaching the Unteachable....Pages 65-81 Playwriting: A Pedagogy of Transmutation....Pages 83-102 Acting and Movement Training as a Pedagogy of the Body....Pages 103-124 All Things to All People: The Teaching of Introduction to Theatre in American Universities and Colleges....Pages 125-144 Teaching Design in a World Without Design: Part II....Pages 145-155 Technology and Theatre Pedagogy: A Call from the Trenches....Pages 157-173 Deconstructing the Dominant: Educational Theatre in Historically Black Colleges and Universities as Critical Pedagogy Sites....Pages 175-193 “Imaginative Collaboration”: Pedagogical Issues in African-American Theatre History....Pages 195-204 Balancing Acts: Teaching Theatre in British Higher Education Today....Pages 205-217 Preparing Future Teachers of Theatre: Pedagogical Issues and Current Practice....Pages 219-232 Back Matter....Pages 233-247 We teach students of theatre to perform, to direct, to design, and encourage their studies in theatre history, theory and criticism, playwriting and comparative dramatic literature. We engage in various teaching and learning experiences daily. But what pedagogies seem best for and encouraged by the art of theatre? As author and veteran theatre educator, Patti P. Gillespie states, 'The time is ripe for a major reassessment of what we have done, what we are doing, and what we might do in the future to better our fields for the twenty-first century'. Teaching Theatre Today offers historical and contemporaneous insights into teaching and learning in academic theatre. The essays, which include a piece from a British scholar, present a beginning to a pedagogical assessment that is beneficial to the life of theatre in academia

This updated edition of Teaching Theatre Today addresses the changing nature of educational theory, curricula, and teaching methods in theatre programs of colleges and universities and includes two new essays from Great Britain. This book offers both historical and theoretical insights into the pedagogy of theatre in colleges and universities during the twentieth century and into the twenty-first. Topics include:

* Teaching devising

* Theory and practice of theater education

* Training for teachers of theatre in the U.S. and England

Theatre curriculum entered higher education at the turn of the twentieth century amid a confluence of economic, political, and educational forces that consolidated the features of the modern research university, fashioned in Germany in the latter half of the nineteenth century. Edited By Anne L. Fliotsos And Gail S. Medford. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.