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"In this book, Kathleen Gallagher presents a case study that illustrates how drama provides a fertile ground for the intellectual and emotional development of girls. By examining the power and possibility of drama in schools to animate the processes of learning, Gallagher's research offers pedagogical alternatives in what she sees as an increasingly mechanistic and disempowering period in education. This work is a contribution to the fields of equity studies and the arts in education, as it provides a new lens through which to examine gender, diversity, and schooling."--Jacket

Drama --- Teenage girls --- Adolescent girls --- Female adolescents --- Girls --- Teenagers --- Drama, Modern --- Dramas --- Dramatic works --- Plays --- Playscripts --- Stage --- Literature --- Dialogue --- Study and teaching (Secondary) --- Education. --- Philosophy

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Because of its powerful socializing effects, the school has always been a site of cultural, political, and academic conflict. In an age where terms such as 'hard-to-teach,' and 'at-risk' beset our pedagogical discourses, where students have grown up in systems plagued by anti-immigrant, anti-welfare, 'zero-tolerance' rhetoric, how we frame and understand the dynamics of classrooms has serious ethical implications and powerful consequences.Using theatre and drama education as a special window into school life in four urban secondary schools in Toronto and New York City, The Theatre of Urban examines the ways in which these schools reflect the cultural and political shifts in big city North American schooling policies, politics, and practices of the early twenty-first century.The Theatre of Urban not only explores the very notion of performance in a novel and interesting way, it also provides new insights into the conflicts that often erupt in these highly charged school spaces.

EDUCATION --- General --- Theater --- Drama --- Urban high schools --- Music, Dance, Drama & Film --- High schools --- Urban schools --- Drama, Modern --- Dramas --- Dramatic works --- Plays --- Playscripts --- Stage --- Literature --- Dialogue --- Dramatics --- Histrionics --- Professional theater --- Theatre --- Performing arts --- Acting --- Actors --- Study and teaching (Secondary) --- Philosophy

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"Why theatre now? Reflecting on the mix of challenges and opportunities that face theatre in communities that are necessarily becoming global in scope and technologically driven, In Defence of Theatre offers a range of passionate reflections on this important question. Kathleen Gallagher and Barry Freeman bring together nineteen playwrights, actors, directors, scholars, and educators who discuss the role that theatre can--and must--play in professional, community, and educational venues. Stepping back from their daily work, they offer scholarly research, artists' reflections, interviews, and creative texts that argue for theatre as a response to the political and cultural challenges emerging in the twenty-first century. Contributors address theatre's contribution to local and global politics of place, its power as an antidote to various modern social ailemnts, and its pursuit of equality. Of equal concern are the systematic and practical challenges that confront those involved in realizing theatre's full potential."--

Theater and society. --- Theater --- Aesthetics. --- Beautiful, The --- Beauty --- Esthetics --- Taste (Aesthetics) --- Philosophy --- Art --- Criticism --- Literature --- Proportion --- Symmetry --- Actors --- Society and theater --- Political aspects. --- Psychology --- Social status --- Social aspects --- Theater and society --- Aesthetics --- Théâtre et société --- Théâtre --- Esthétique --- Political aspects --- Aspect politique --- Radio broadcasting Aesthetics

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This book explores the affective and relational lives of young people in diverse urban spaces. By following the trajectories of diverse young people as they creatively work through multiple and unfolding global crises, it asks how arts-based methodologies might answer the question: How do we stand in relation to others, those nearby and those at great distances? The research draws on knowledges, research traditions, and artistic practices that span the Global North and Global South, including Athens (Greece), Coventry (England), Lucknow (India), Tainan (Taiwan), and Toronto (Canada) and curates a way of thinking about global research that departs from the comparative model and moves towards a new analytic model of thinking multiple research sites alongside one another as an approach to sustaining dialogue between local contexts and wider global concerns.

Education --- Politics and education --- Political aspects. --- Social groups. --- Family. --- Social sciences. --- Sociology—Research. --- Racism in the social sciences. --- Social service. --- Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging. --- Methodology of the Social Sciences. --- Research Methodology. --- Sociology of Racism. --- Social Work and Community Development. --- Benevolent institutions --- Philanthropy --- Relief stations (for the poor) --- Social service agencies --- Social welfare --- Social work --- Human services --- Social sciences --- Behavioral sciences --- Human sciences --- Sciences, Social --- Social science --- Social studies --- Civilization --- Family --- Families --- Family life --- Family relationships --- Family structure --- Relationships, Family --- Structure, Family --- Social institutions --- Birth order --- Domestic relations --- Home --- Households --- Kinship --- Marriage --- Matriarchy --- Parenthood --- Patriarchy --- Association --- Group dynamics --- Groups, Social --- Associations, institutions, etc. --- Social participation --- Social aspects --- Social conditions --- Sociology. --- Sociology --- Race. --- Community development. --- Sociological Methods. --- Race and Ethnicity Studies. --- Community development --- Regional development --- Economic assistance, Domestic --- Social planning --- Physical anthropology --- Social theory --- Methodology. --- Citizen participation --- Government policy