Staging Stories That Heal: Boal and Freire in Engaged Composition

Autor/in	Lariscy, Nichole
Titel	Staging Stories That Heal: Boal and Freire in Engaged Composition
Quelle	In: Community Literacy Journal, 11 (2016) 1, S.127-137 (11 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1555-9734
Schlagwörter	Teaching Methods; Theater Arts; Literacy; Disadvantaged; Instructional Innovation; Service Learning; Playwriting; Dementia; Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS); Patients; Clinics; Public Health; Outreach Programs; Access to Health Care; Audiences; Autobiographies; Fantasy; Student Empowerment; Teacher Empowerment; Urban Areas; English Instruction; Writing Instruction; Undergraduate Students; Alabama (Birmingham) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Theaterwissenschaft; Alphabetisierung; Schreib- und Lesefähigkeit; Educational Innovation; Bildungsinnovation; Service-Learning; Demenz; Patient; Gesundheitswesen; Jobcoaching; Spectator; Zuschauer; Autobiography; Autobiografie; Autobiographie; Fantasie; Studienberechtigung; Urban area; Stadtregion; English langauage lessons; Englischunterricht; Schreibunterricht
Abstract	This article discusses the successes and vulnerabilities associated with combining the pedagogical methods of Theater, Composition, and Community Literacy in the Composition classroom. It examines how the ideas of Augusto Boal's "Theatre of the Oppressed" and Paulo Freire's "Pedagogy of the Oppressed" can be combined to support an innovative approach to Composition teaching, one that additionally employs engaged scholarship and service learning. The essay describes how methods and cycles of story gathering, playwriting, and rhetorical analysis have been used with various community partners, including an adult day care for dementia patients, an HIV/AIDs clinic, and Public Health outreach programs that address Health Disparities. The article explains how the ready audience of community-written plays and the inherent characteristics of theatrical production enable finite and clearly definable communication moments and products--especially in the autobiography-fantasy fused genre I have termed "magical memoir"--while engaging and empowering the voices of students, teachers, community partners, and audience members alike. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Community Literacy Journal. Department of Writing, Rhetoric, & Discourse, DePaul University, 802 West Belden Avenue, Chicago, IL 60614. Tel: 906-370-0206; Web site: http://communityliteracy.org/
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01