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Michelle MacArthur; Kimberley McLeod; Scott Mealey – Research in Drama Education, 2024
This article examines the creation and reception of "The Stream You Step In," a digital series co-produced by Outside the March for University of Windsor students and performed live over Zoom in 2020. While Zoom is assumed to be a care-less medium, we argue that it offers new, altered modes of caring through its disruption of boundaries…
Descriptors: Drama Education, Foreign Countries, Universities, Videoconferencing
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Nordentoft, Helle Merete; Olesen, Birgitte Ravn – Teaching in Higher Education, 2023
Forum theatre is a dialogic method with the potential to bridge the gap between practice-based and academic learning in higher education by enabling postgraduate students to act out and critically reflect on everyday dilemmas. In previous research, little attention is placed on the crucial role of the facilitator and the implications of her…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Reflection, Acting, Theater Arts
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Powell, Sarah J.; Somerville, Margaret – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2022
In performing the zombie game, children enact embodied literacies through movement, gesture, and sound, and through incorporating the materiality and the spatiality of the outdoor area. They communicate in many ways, both brutal and subtle, enacting their understandings with each other as well as with other adults. The repeated performance seems…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Educational Games, Human Body, Motion
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Moore, Tracey – Teaching Artist Journal, 2017
Increased technology use by college-age students (millennials) has created problems for the acting classroom. Constantin Stanislavski's technique is still the standard, but students arrive to campus unready or unable to engage in his methods or with each other, so new approaches are required. Classroom exercises are provided, many inspired by…
Descriptors: College Students, Acting, Theater Arts, Teaching Methods
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Brian R. Levey – Journal of Teaching and Learning with Technology, 2015
This essay describes the process by which a new college professor embraced using film clips in an undergraduate Business Law course, with the goal of enhancing student engagement and learning. In particular this paper focuses on: (1) theme days, in which a movie, TV show or actor is used as a vehicle to teach an entire class; and (2) review…
Descriptors: Business Education, Law Related Education, Learner Engagement, Teaching Methods
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Shah, Sonali; Wallis, Mick; Conor, Fiona; Kiszely, Phillip – Research Papers in Education, 2015
The transfer of disability history research to new generation audiences is crucial to allow lessons from the past to impact the future inclusion and equality agenda. As today's children are the policy makers and the legislators of tomorrow, it is important for them to have opportunities to engage with disability life story narratives to understand…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Disabilities, Teaching Methods, History
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Favila, Marina – CEA Forum, 2015
This personal reflection looks at the benefits of using performance pedagogy in the Shakespeare classroom, both in terms of a general understanding of the period and a student's personal connection to the text. Though the essay acknowledges our profession's ongoing dialogue in this area, it mostly seeks to look at how a student may change once she…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Reflection, English Literature, Reader Text Relationship
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Woodworth, Ann E. – Journal of General Education, 2014
Qatar can afford to purchase pretty much anything--including top-quality American university education. However, given the vast differences in culture, dress, religion, and social mores, along with youth's global unemployment rates and their hankering for all things technological, does it make sense for Qatar to import a course in acting? Many…
Descriptors: International Schools, Multicampus Colleges, Cultural Differences, Institutional Characteristics
Achkasova, Natalya – Online Submission, 2013
This article invites teachers to consider how to strengthen links between English, music, arts, and acting, maximizing the potential for children to become successful language learners at a young age. It will show how children's opera can act as a catalyst for learning and using the language. The findings demonstrate that teaching English with a…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, English Instruction, Communicative Competence (Languages), Young Children
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Wolk, Susan – Learning Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2010
The purpose of this article is to provide teachers, tutors and parents with an effective and enjoyable approach to practicing reading fluency, increasing comprehension and encouraging the joy of reading, based on the theories and methods of Sally L. Smith. This method can be applied and adapted to individual student's needs. Sally Smith, the…
Descriptors: Laboratory Schools, Reading Fluency, Learning Disabilities, Teaching Methods
Zhang, Yun – English Teaching Forum, 2009
According to Ur (1996, 120), "of all the four skills (listening, speaking, reading and writing), speaking seems intuitively the most important." Indeed, whether for business or pleasure, a primary motivation to learn a second language is to be able to converse with speakers of that language. However, in addition to being an important…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Phonemes
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Herrington, Joan – Theatre Topics, 2000
Explains the Viewpoints, a technique used to focus actors' awareness on different elements of performance such as tempo, duration, gesture, and spatial relationships. Notes that this former avant-garde technique is now taught by mainstream directors. Proposes that Viewpoints is a valuable tool for the rediscovery of a production. (PM)
Descriptors: Acting, Drama, Higher Education, Performance
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Taylor, Robert D. – Youth Theatre Journal, 1994
Reexamines classical tragedy and Brechtian acting exercises in an attempt to provide revitalized strategies offering greater pedagogical focus in practical drama classes. Presents a conceptual framework called "Moments of Dignity through Epics." (SR)
Descriptors: Acting, Drama, Higher Education, Secondary Education
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Broglio, Lawrence – Journal of the Association for Communication Administration (JACA), 1993
Discusses the unpacking of the term "creativity," hindrances to the execution of creativity, and eight specific teaching techniques that enable the advanced actor to focus all of his/herself into integrated action toward and into an integrated response. (RS)
Descriptors: Acting, Class Activities, Creativity, Higher Education
King, Peter – Teaching Theatre, 2002
Describes the "As If" technique, a mnemonic device that reminds actors what the action they are doing means and feels to them personally. Discusses introducing As If to students, the As If "game," and applying it to scripted scenes. (RS)
Descriptors: Acting, Rehearsals (Theater Arts), Secondary Education, Teaching Methods
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