Embodied Learning in Educational Theatre - Perspectives on Kinesthetic Change Social Transformation From Urban

This text explores embodied teaching practices through applied and physical theatre, drawing extensively on the author's rich experience teaching in diverse urban environments, including schools, colleges, and prison settings.

List of contents

Introduction
Part I: Theory 1 Theory and the Body 2 Embodied Cognition 3 Ethics
Part II: Practice 4 Embodied Practices 5 Embodied Practitioners 6 Embodied Pedagogy
Part III: Prison 7 An Overview of Mass Incarceration 8 The Carceral Body 9 Teaching Theatre in Prison 10 Rehabilitation through the Arts 11 Prison Tale
Part IV : Coda 12 The Drama Classroom

About the author

Nancy Smithner is Clinical Professor of Educational Theatre, New York University, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development, USA.

Product details

• Authors: Nancy Smithner
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.04.2025
• EAN: 9780367651558
• ISBN: 978-0-367-65155-8
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Routledge Research in Arts Education
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Adult education; EDUCATION / General, EDUCATION / Adult & Continuing Education, EDUCATION / Urban, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, EDUCATION / Arts in Education, Theatre Studies, Creative therapy (eg art, music, drama), Secondary Schools, Moral and social purpose of education, Teaching of a specific subject, Adult education, continuous learning, Primary & middle schools, Moral & social purpose of education, Primary and middle schools, PERFORMING ARTS / Improvisation, Creative therapy / Expressive therapies