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Exploring the Potentials of Community Theatre as a Tool for Social Change: the Participatory Communication Method [PDF]

, 2014
It is observed that most development modalities employed over the years for achieving community development in Africa have not leaved up to expectation in terms of involving the majority of people in the quest for national transformation and development;
Adie Edward, U., Okoro, Lilian A., Orim, Eugenia G.   +2 more
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The Art of Survival: Social Circus, Youth Regeneration and Projected Community in the North East of Scotland [PDF]

, 2016
This chapter examines the creative practice of Theatre Modo in North East Scotland.2 A self-defined ‘social circus’ established in 1995, Theatre Modo works throughout Scotland from bases in Glasgow and, since 2012, Peterhead utilizing ‘high quality ...
Jeffery, Graham, Patton, Neill, Schaefer, Kerrie, Wakeford, Tom   +3 more
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‘The best year’/‘I struggled with everything’: Widening participation experiences of pandemic online learning

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Improving retention and graduate outcomes for students from a widening participation (WP) background is key to achieving more equitable outcomes. However, evidence suggests WP students experienced different challenges than their peers during the COVID‐19 pandemic.
Wilhelmiina Toivo, Emily Nordmann, Jacqui Hutchison, Alison Browitt, Jill R. D. MacKay   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Viewpoints/Points of View: Building a Transdisciplinary Data Theatre Collaboration in Six Scenes

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Data now plays a central role in civic life and community practices. This has created a pressing need for new forms of translation and sense-making that can engage diverse publics.
Dani Snyder-Young, Michael Arnold Mages, Rahul Bhargava, Jonathan Carr, Laura Perovich, Victor Talmadge, Oliver Wason, Moira Zellner, Angelique C-Dina, Ren Birnholz, Halle Brockett, Ezekiel D’Ascoli, Donovan Holt, Sydney Love, George Belliveau   +14 more
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Landscapes of Fact and Fiction: Asian Theatre Arts in Britain [PDF]

, 2000
In the first of two essays which use academic discourses of cultural exchange to examine the intra-cultural situation in contemporary British society, Barnaby King analyzes the relationship between Black arts and mainstream arts on both a professional ...
King, Barnaby
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Learning to ‘be’ an activist: Exploring the relationship between activism and informal education in a youth activism group case study

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Young people in the United States (and beyond) access spaces for activism in varied ways, including the out‐of‐school time sector, where youth activism (YA) groups draw on informal learning pedagogies to engage young people in collective action.
Laura Weiner
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Your Story Matters: Theatre for Community in Practice with the Boys and Girls Club of Bloomington-Normal [PDF]

, 2015
“Applied Theatre” is a useful umbrella term for all committed to the power of theatre in making a difference to the human life span. It is played in spaces that are not traditionally defined as theatre buildings. The performances include participants who
Menke, Sarah
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Theatrical touring companies and amateur dramatics in colonial India [PDF]

, 2014
This article argues that theatre in colonial India-both in the form of touring companies and amateur dramatics-offered much more than mere entertainment: first, it was an important social space where the British diaspora constituted itself as a community.
Becker, Tobias
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‘When joy comes your way, you have to grab it!’ Troubling how queer joy features in the lives of LGBT+ school‐attending youth in South Africa

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Recently, the concept ‘queer joy’ has gained interest in LGBT+ scholarship in the West. I use this scholarship as an entry point to explore how school‐attending LGBT+ youth express joy and how joy serves as a form of resistance against gender and sexuality norms in educational settings.
Dennis Francis
wiley   +1 more source

Excellence on Stage and in Life: The Mosaic Model for Youth Development through the Arts [PDF]

, 2008
In 2008, Mosaic released the findings of a three-year study conducted by the University of Michigan Department of Psychology, The Detroit Initiative and area-Detroit community based organizations.
Lorraine M. Guti
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