Acting Up: Dramatic Approaches for Socially Engaged Language and Literacy Education Online and in Person

Session Type: Demonstration/Performance

Abstract

Drama requires us to attend to a whole host of linguistic, paralinguistic, discursive, cultural, and societal factors, offering unique opportunities to foster critical inquiry into systemic inequities as well as to build language and literacy expertise. This session brings together scholar-practitioners of drama-based education to present diverse, research-based approaches to engaging students of all ages in drama for critical language and literacy education with the aim of promoting social equity. Attendees will participate in a variety of interactive dramatic activities and reflect, through guided discussion, on how they can be adapted for their own curricular contexts so that all can take responsibility for self and society through a creative and dialogic educational process.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Arts and Learning

Chair

• Kathleen Rose McGovern, University of Georgia - Athens

Papers

• Drama Games: How the Key Tenets of Improv Can Scaffold Critical Literacy - Melisa Misha Cahnmann-Taylor, University of Georgia; Kathleen Rose McGovern, University of Georgia - Athens

• Drama-Based Pedagogy: Tools to Create, Connect, and Conspire in the Language and Literacy Classroom - Kathryn Dawson, The University of Texas at Austin

• Employing Forum Theater to Assist in Reconceptualizating Self and Society in Education and Health Care Settings - Joe Norris, Brock University; Kevin Hobbs, Brock University; Michael M. Metz, Brock University

• Performing or Stereotyping? Hot-Seating Drama-in-Education in Critical Times - Amanda Claudia Wager, Vancouver Island University; Allison Nicole Tucker, Lesley University