Pearl-Styles, Rainier

Overview "While William Shakespeare's work permeates the United States education system, scholars debate the benefit. Through qualitative interviews and a review of literature, six pedagogical approaches to liberatory Shakespeare education were discovered and applied to a devising process. A group of unaffiliated adults piloted the co-constructed, devised process, which integrated social-justice theatre techniques with ensemble and community building activities with the goal of creating a performance...