Emerson thesis -- Applied Theatre
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Found in 26 Collections and/or Records:
A Chance to Shine: The Long-Term Effects of Participation in High School Theatre Productions, 2021
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Identifier: te_2021spring_stillman_dyane.pdf
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"This study's purpose is threefold: first, to expand the field of research in secondary education through investigation of long-term effects of involvement with extracurricular theatre programs in the adult lives of graduates, secondly, to provide qualitative evidence in service of arts advocacy, and thirdly, to demonstrate the applied theatre skill of devising a playscript from community stories. The study examines elements of arts education research and legislation in the United States in...
Dates:
2021
Acting Out: An Integrated Preschool Theater Curriculum for Empathy Development, 2021
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Identifier: te_2021spring_tidball_kelsey.pdf
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"Theater arts have long been incorporated into K-12 education, not simply as a tool to teach kids how to perform a monologue or design a set, but to teach valuable social and emotional skills. However, theater arts are less often included in early education settings for use with younger, preschool-age students. This project examines the usefulness of incorporating theater arts into an early education setting to encourage social and emotional growth and empathy development. It gives an...
Dates:
2021
Afro-Colombiana Cultural Workers Strategizing Self-Care in Bogotá, 2020
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Identifier: te_2020spring_wand_kate.pdf
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"This paper explores the strategies of self-care for survival utilized by Afro-Colombian female cultural workers in Bogotá. Interviews were conducted to contextualize and identify selfcare strategies for survival. Participants include three Afro-Colombian female cultural workers and their mestiza female colleagues at a hip-hop community arts center in Bogotá. Daily, ordinary and lived experiences can be examined to understand why Afro-Colombian women might need these strategies, how they are...
Dates:
2020
Blood Will Have Blood: Shakespeare as Inquiry into the World, With the World, and With Each Other, 2023
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Identifier: te_2023summer_pearl-styles_rainier.pdf
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"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...
Dates:
2023
Confronting Challenges Facing International Graduate Students: The Impact of Using Documentary Theatre to tell Their Stories, 2023
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Identifier: te_2023summer_archer_lemar.pdf
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"Substantial research has emphasized the various challenges faced by international graduate students when adjusting to pursuing academic studies in the United States. This qualitative study examines the challenges and experiences of four (4) international graduate students at a U.S. liberal arts college in the northeast. The study further examines the impact of engaging two (2) international students along with myself in the process of devising a documentary theatre performance to tell the...
Dates:
2023
Connected Pedagogy in Theatre Training: Embodiment, Empowerment and Empathy, 2021
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Identifier: te_2021spring_bernfeld_eve.pdf
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"Can American theatre training in the 21st Century shed its psychology-based, Cartesian-influenced, hierarchical structure and instead work toward co-engagement, co-learning and co-liberation of students and teachers? The Coronavirus pandemic, coupled with the Black Lives Matter, #MeToo and Youth Climate movements, demands an examination of traditional power hegemonies, including in the training of theatre artists. This qualitative inquiry and associated grounded research looks at the...
Dates:
2021
Creating Safe Space for Difficult Conversations, 2021
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Identifier: te_2021spring_christopher_brittany.pdf
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"Theatre education can provide a place of inclusion and understanding, welcoming people from all walks of life. The theatre classroom can promote opportunities for children to celebrate difference and otherness, queerness and diversity. Theatre is used as a tool for empathy development across a variety of fields and disciplines. In order to explore this further, a professional development workshop was crafted, using theatre as a tool to create space for difficult conversations. The goal was...
Dates:
2021
Devising to Enhance Acting Technique and Vulnerability with Student Actors of Color, 2022
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Identifier: te_2022spring_dones_elena.pdf
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"This study aims to determine any connection between devising theatre and experiencing vulnerability while practicing acting craft. Two groups of theatre students over two years, at a visual and performing arts high school in Newark, NJ, participated in devised theatre projects. Interviews with nineteen of those students, all of Black or Latinx backgrounds, was compiled and audio recorded between January and April, 2022. The students talked at length about the community-bonding, the freedom...
Dates:
2022
Hey, "Pretty Girl": School Girls and Consent-Based Learning, 2021
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Identifier: te_2021spring_jonas_emily.pdf
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"This thesis project describes the outcomes of a devised theatre project that looked at the similarities and differences in the treatment of girls in education. Interviews, writings, reflections, creative pieces and stories were gathered from over 40 women and girls ranging from age 11 to 92-years-old. The contributing authors and participants reflected on their own schooling, primarily their middle school years, and focused on three concepts: body image, strength/athleticism, and...
Dates:
2021
Integrating Emotional Intelligence into the College Acting Curricula, 2021
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Identifier: te_2021spring_neely_janet.pdf
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"Emotional Intelligence (EI) training can be used in the college acting classroom to add depth to learning and provide a concrete vehicle for faculty to address emotions. Along with movement and voice, EI education will create a strong foundation and give acting students the skills they need to hone their craft. This paper will provide support for integrating EI into the college acting curricula and reflections on the implementation of an EI unit into several acting courses. Anecdotal and...
Dates:
2021
Intentional Playmaking: Integrating Sheltered English Immersion into the devising process, 2021
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Identifier: te_2021fall_schreiber_megan.pdf
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"This project explores the planning and implementation of a theatre curriculum designed to serve English language learners and all students. The curriculum adapts and includes Sheltered English Immersion strategies and Sheltered Content instruction within the theatre classroom, using Playmaking and Devising exercises in hybrid and concurrent learning models. Due to the structured supports and equitable access to the playmaking process, throughout the project engagement increased; as did the...
Dates:
2021
Keeping the Drama on the Stage: A Year-In-The-Life of a High School Theater Program During COVID-19, 2021
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Identifier: te_2021spring_ohara_aidan.pdf
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"A year-in-the-life of any lifelong educator is filled with particular and striking moments that differentiate it from the others. Teaching high school drama classes and running a co curricular theater program during a global pandemic is a school year that distinguishes itself from all others. This project follows the story of a drama teacher and his students in a suburban high school outside Boston, Massachusetts. Over the course of 14 months, this high school theater ensemble navigated...
Dates:
2021
LISTEN! Non-hierarchical Teaching and Learning through Co-Created Theatre in a High School Community, 2023
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Identifier: te_2023summer_hamilton_french_leah.pdf
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"This paper discusses and reflects on a devised theater project co-created by the author, a high school theater teacher, and four of her students in the spring of 2023. In addition to a describing the project design and outcomes, it weaves together research on the school-to-prison pipeline, restorative discipline, non-hierarchical pedagogy, and storytelling as methodology with participant interviews and anecdotal evidence from devising sessions and performances to advocate for co-created...
Dates:
2023
Making Puppets: An Explorative Study in Remote Theatre Curriculum Creation for Indigenous Communities, 2021
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Identifier: te_2021spring_monroe_helen.pdf
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"This project is an exploration of creating remote, puppet-based drama curriculum for an Indigenous Community school in Ontario, Canada. Using Zoom to facilitate classes, I worked with two elementary teachers to develop eight lessons that gave students the opportunity to design, create and perform with handmade puppets. The result of my research and this project's implementation is a reflection on my experiences that is intended to help educators and teaching artists bring accessible,...
Dates:
2021
Not if, But How: Critical Race Theory in the High School Classroom, 2022
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Identifier: te_2022spring_huiett_erin.pdf
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"Since the New York Times Magazine's publication of the 1619 Project in 2019, school administrators, educators, politicians and parents have been in heated discourse about bringing critical race theory (CRT) to K-12 classrooms. However, there is significant research that points to the validity of incorporating elements of CRT in K-12 curriculum, and to the absolute need for White students to investigate the history of whiteness, white privilege, and systemic racism. This thesis project seeks...
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2022
"Nothing About Us Without Us:" An Examination of the Dramatic Costs of Skewed, Surrogate, and Failed Representations of Autism in Theatre, 2021
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Identifier: te_2021spring_lourenco_jenna.pdf
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"This thesis examines the patterns of autistic representation in theatre from the perspective of non-elected political representation as defined by Laura Montanaro, based on Damien Milton's premise (the double empathy problem) that non-autistic people are frequently unable to understand the emotions and motivations of autistic individuals, and are therefore often incapable of representing autistic characters and stories accurately through the medium of theatre and performative storytelling....
Dates:
2021
Practice Makes Perfect: Seeking an Alternate Route to Rote Learning Through the Use of Theater, 2022
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Identifier: te_2022spring_brown_kelsey.pdf
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"Neuro-divergent education can feel like a race against the clock. How can educators get these students up to speed, give them life skills and social-emotional skills, while still providing them with a meaningful education? Educators, specialists, caregivers, and the students themselves, seem to be fighting an uphill battle. This study seeks to examine alternatives to rote learning through the use of theater. A sub-separate preschool class participated in weekly theater lessons for a month....
Dates:
2022
Re-hear-sing Performative Traditions: Engaging With Cultural Practices in College Devised Theatre, 2020
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Identifier: te_2020spring_thiel_john.pdf
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"This thesis documents the methodology, findings, and theoretical underpinnings of a qualitative research study that investigates how a small sample of Emerson College undergraduate and graduate students engaged with cultural traditions from their upbringings in the devised theatre project 'What Moves Us,' which I directed in the spring of 2020. Recognizing in devised theatre the potential for intervention in college-level theatre practices that can privilege hegemonic cultural values and...
Dates:
2020
Still Growing: A Reminiscence Performance Project, 2023
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Identifier: te_2023summer_taaffe_allison.pdf
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"As the United States population undergoes an unprecedented aging process, the field of creative aging serves as a powerful intervention to combat ageism while providing older adults with meaningful opportunities for personal growth and social connection. This paper delves into the successes and challenges of piloting a Reminiscence Performance project at a senior center. The primary objective was to underscore the generative potential and celebrate the lives of older adults within the...
Dates:
2023
Story Exchange Of and Around Sexual Assault: Building Connection to Educate, Heal, and Protect Community, 2021
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Identifier: te_2021spring_schwall_erin.pdf
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"Incidents of sexual assault continue to occur at an alarming rate on college and university campuses across the country. While bystander intervention training is educating students to help prevent this crime from occurring, stories of survivors are still silenced in our classrooms, perpetuating the idea that they are alone in their trauma and need to handle it on their own. Using a theatre storytelling exercise, I developed a workshop to share personal stories of surviving sexual assault...
Dates:
2021