Assessment And Learning

Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia

Educational robotics has great potential as a learning tool at all levels, from kindergarten to the university. It provides rich opportunities for collaborative knowledge building and skills acquisition through the manipulation of and interaction with robots. Despite the remarkable progress in this field, the scope and impact of robot-based activities have primarily focused on the teaching of technical school subjects (i.e., computer science, mathematics, and physics). This work proposes to support the learning and teaching of non-technical school subjects through drama-based activities with multiple robots. This approach provides a multisensory learning environment where students can learn through representations or simulations of ideas, events, stories, phenomena, or processes using multiple robot actors. Based on the drama process used by teachers, we propose steps to create and perform plays with robot actors in an educational context and discuss different alternatives for its implementation. Finally, we discuss the challenges of creating plays with multiple robots for educational purposes.

Interactive drama with robots for teaching non-technical subjects

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Women in Russia: A New Era in Russian Feminism

In Drama and Education: Performance Methodologies for Teaching and Learning, Manon van de Water, Mary McAvoy, and Kristin Hunt deftly survey the foundations and practical components of drama and ed...

Drama and education: performance methodologies for teaching and learning

Drama and Education provides a practical, comprehensive guide to drama as a tool for teaching and learning. It is among the first practical drama and performance textbooks that address brain-based, neuroscientific research, making the argument that creativity is necessary in our lives, that embodied learning is natural and essential, and that contextual learning helps us find our place in society in relationship to other peoples and cultures. As well as a historical and theoretical overview of the field, it provides rationale and techniques for several specific methodologies:　linear drama, process-oriented drama, drama for social justice, and performance art.

Each approach is supplemented with sample lesson plans, activities, ideas for differentiation, and extensive bibliographies. The topics are discussed from five key angles:
　
• Historical and theoretical foundations
• Curricular applications
• Practical toolkits for a range of classrooms and learning environments
• Different strategies for lesson plans
• Extension options for longer workshops.
　
Alongside these core methods, the integration of other innovative forms—from performance art to Theatre of the Oppressed—into drama-based learning is explored, as well as the pragmatic concerns such as assessment, planning, and advocacy for arts learning and arts education partnerships. 
　
Drama and Education is the comprehensive textbook for teachers and students on Applied Theatre and Theatre and Education courses.

Drama and Education: Performance Methodologies for Teaching and Learning

This study is a phenomenological exploration of assessment practices in elementary-level drama education. Through analysis of interviews with fourteen drama educators, it describes how elementary d...

Assessment in elementary-level drama education: Teachers’ conceptualizations and practices

In theater arts education and arts education more broadly, scholars and policy makers now navigate forces associated with the well-documented neoliberal turn shaping discussions of competition, per...

Theater arts, global education, and policy; or, what Chance the Rapper taught us about arts education

For this project, I analyze two of twenty-two-year-old Russian playwright Yaroslava Pulinovich's works, Natasha's Dream and I Won, to examine how she explores the tensions present in contemporary Russian youth culture. In addition to my literary analysis of her plays in relation to contemporary Russian youth culture, I also consider how Pulinovich innovates contemporary performance for audiences between ages sixteen and twenty-five via her work in the Russian New Drama movement. As Pulinovich negotiates the competing forces of progress and tradition within the liminal space of contemporary Russian adolescence, the stories of her Natasha characters emerge as microcosmic examples of sociopolitical and cultural trends that shape the lives of young people, particularly young women, in contemporary Russia. Pulinovich's Natasha plays offer an important new perspective on young adults' lives from the field of Russian theatre for youth.

Staging Contemporary Russian Teenage Femininity in Yaroslava Pulinovich's Natasha Plays

What events, patterns, or people have shaped the field or marked its milestones since Youth Theatre Journal’s (YTJ’s) first issue in 1986? We put the call out to YTJ readers, this rich array of ent...

Mary McAvoy

Papers

Drama and Education: Performance Methodologies for Teaching and Learning

Assessment in elementary-level drama education: Teachers’ conceptualizations and practices

Theater arts, global education, and policy; or, what Chance the Rapper taught us about arts education

Staging Contemporary Russian Teenage Femininity in Yaroslava Pulinovich's Natasha Plays

Three decade drama/theatre and (for/with/by/about) youth crowd-sourced timeline