Department of Teaching, Learning and Teacher Education
Department of Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
Date of this Version
5-2013
Citation
Kim Anthony, Process Drama: A Medium for Creating a Hospitable Space for Learning through Reverent Listening, MA Thesis, University of Nebraska, 2013.
Abstract
This thesis explores how Process Drama, as pedagogy, can invite into educational discourse a conversation about the roles of hospitality and reverence in the classroom through reverent listening to self, others and context. It can become a medium for holistic learning in the drama classroom and in learning situations of all kinds. Process Drama, as an enactment of reverent listening, creates a space for theater to facilitate the engagement of all participants, creating a learningful experience that can transcend barriers of race and social economic status brought by the invited and uninvited learner. Reverent listening and hospitality become the catalyst through which Process Drama can become a revered and necessary means for learning. The truly reverent classroom is where students can take on the mantle of the expert (Bolton & Heathcote, 1995) giving them the language and appetite for learning, engaging them in the necessity for reverent listening.
Adviser: Margaret Macintyre Latta
Included in
Disability and Equity in Education Commons, Educational Methods Commons, Fine Arts Commons, Junior High, Intermediate, Middle School Education and Teaching Commons, Other Teacher Education and Professional Development Commons
Comments
A THESIS Presented to the Faculty of The Graduate College at the University of Nebraska In Partial Fulfillment of Requirements For the Degree of Master of Arts, Major: Teaching, Learning and Teacher Education, Under the Supervision of Professor Margaret Macintyre Latta. Lincoln, Nebraska: May, 2013
Copyright (c) 2013 Kim Anne Anthony