Play-Building for Pedagogical Purposes: Performing Concepts of Person-Centered Care for Family Orientations and Staff Training

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Abstract

This presentation is based upon a collaboration among an urban hospital (organizational stakeholder), a faculty member of recreation and leisure studies and a member of a drama department. They employed focus groups to generate data on the lived-experiences of family members and hospital staff of patients with dementia or traumatic brain injuries and ethnodrama (Saldaña, 2005) and playbuilding (Author, 2008 & 2018) to disseminate it theatrically. Leavy (2009) claims that, “the use of arts-based presentational strategies brings academic scholarship to wider audiences” (p. 14). This partnership produced a 32-minute pedagogical video to evoke dialogic conversations about person-centered care. Performing the dramatizations live, this session demonstrates how research-based theatre can reach non-academic audiences, providing “possibilities for the public good” (Call).

Authors

• Joe Norris, Brock University

• Dani Shae Barkley, Brock University

• Candice Kristine de Freitas Braz, Brock University

• Lindsay Detta, Carousel Players

• Nadia Ganesh, Brock University

• Kevin Hobbs, Brock University

• Bernadette Amy Kahnert, Brock University