TY - JOUR
T1 - The reflective lenses on forum theatre about marriage—negotiation of identities within multicultural community practice
AU - Shu, Jack
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 American Alliance for Theatre and Education.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - This paper is a reflective journal of a university drama teacher’s practice. The author tries to find out the details of communal learning in two pieces of devised forum theatre under the concept of Theatre of the Oppressed (TO). The group projects described here show the tutor’s facilitation in harnessing the group toward a consensus on an agreed theme, followed by interesting interactive forum sessions within the multicultural community. With the view of harnessing students toward the use of their own daily life experience, the author reflects on his policy of promoting participants’ use of first languages and cultural capitals. He arrives at the conclusion that such language policy, as opposed to the official policy of the university he serves, actually enhanced negotiation and formation of identities. Such enhancement was also a key factor in the success of this institutionalized group’s learning through forum theatres. In a word, the author has demonstrated his reflective practitioner’s lenses of teacher-as-administrator, teacher-as-participant, and teacher-as-artist.
AB - This paper is a reflective journal of a university drama teacher’s practice. The author tries to find out the details of communal learning in two pieces of devised forum theatre under the concept of Theatre of the Oppressed (TO). The group projects described here show the tutor’s facilitation in harnessing the group toward a consensus on an agreed theme, followed by interesting interactive forum sessions within the multicultural community. With the view of harnessing students toward the use of their own daily life experience, the author reflects on his policy of promoting participants’ use of first languages and cultural capitals. He arrives at the conclusion that such language policy, as opposed to the official policy of the university he serves, actually enhanced negotiation and formation of identities. Such enhancement was also a key factor in the success of this institutionalized group’s learning through forum theatres. In a word, the author has demonstrated his reflective practitioner’s lenses of teacher-as-administrator, teacher-as-participant, and teacher-as-artist.
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U2 - 10.1080/08929092.2021.1891163
DO - 10.1080/08929092.2021.1891163
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85106312935
SN - 0892-9092
VL - 35
SP - 49
EP - 64
JO - Youth Theatre Journal
JF - Youth Theatre Journal
IS - 1-2
ER -