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Publication Date: 2020-Aug-28
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Fracturing and Re-Membering: Exploring Educational Crisis through Performative Mapping
McManimon, Shannon K.
International Journal of Education & the Arts, v21 n24 Aug 2020
"Fracturing and Re-Membering" is a performative mapping combining critical autoethnography and verbatim theatre that re-presents the entanglement of the fragmented and fractured work of teaching, professional development, and research. It draws on data from professional development sessions of a critical literacy and creative drama program that partners U.S. elementary school classrooms with Teaching Artists from a nonprofit theatre company. While the performative mapping can stand alone, I first explain professional development experiences I facilitated for these Teaching Artists on Kumashiro's (2009) conception of crisis in relation to learning; I then outline the research process that led to the performative mapping. Following the performative mapping, I reflect on how using creative drama as pedagogy in professional development and as research facilitated re-membering ourselves both individually and collectively as we worked through crises forcing us to confront troubling knowledge. The performative mapping invites audiences/participants to do so as well.
Descriptors: Theater Arts, Ethnography, Faculty Development, Critical Literacy, Artists, Art Teachers, Memory, Crisis Management, Elementary Schools, Drama
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education
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Language: English
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