Poster #10 - Race in Liminal Space: Drama as Embodied, Multimodal Pedagogy of Possibility

• In Event: 31.094 - MTCC Poster Session Six
  In Poster Session: 31.094-3 - Reading Critical Race Theory in Curriculum

Abstract

This paper examines how drama proved effective for engaging Grade 9 students in the embodied exploration of course content and developing their historical consciousness when it was used to teach the social studies curriculum. Drawing on ethnographic data, poststructural and critical theories, this paper explores how the youth’s informal discourses of race, largely censored in the classroom, emerged as they worked with each other in ways explicitly grounded in the experiences and interactions between sensate bodies. As scholars and educators working within diverse communities and a subject area widely acknowledged for delimiting the boundaries of nation—instilling senses of belonging and exclusion—we can benefit from understanding how embodied and multimodal pedagogies can be useful for broaching difficult topics.

Author

• Sara Schroeter, University of Regina