Temporary Stages

by Gonzalez, Jo Beth

• ISBN13: 9780325008202
• ISBN10: 0325008205
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-01-05
• Publisher: Heinemann Drama

Summary

Jo Beth Gonzalez calls her approach the Critically Conscious Production-Oriented Classroom (CCPOC). The CCPOC offers a context for students to build, extend, and deepen their notions of critical thinking and expands the boundaries of your teaching. Temporary Stagesincludes three case studies of how Gonzalez makes the CCPOC work in diverse aspects of her theatre program, including: practicing democracy in theatre design spotlighting oppression in play production addressing controversial topics in writing and performance. With these thematic backdrops, Gonzalez gives you not only clear guidelines about how to teach students in the CCPOC way, but also how to model critical awareness by questioning traditional assumptions about casting, play selection, design, staging, and directing. She also offers insight into how reflective writing increases the potency of the learning in the CCPOC.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Acknowledgments	xiii
1 What Is a Critically Conscious Production-Oriented Classroom?	1	(30)
Promoting Critical Consciousness Through Drama/Theatre Education	1	(14)
Structure of this Book	15	(12)
The Adventure of Teaching Theatre for Self-Agency and Critical Consciousness	27	(2)
Notes	29	(2)
2 On Reflection as Evaluation	31	(8)
Reflection Evaluations: Gateway to a Critically Conscious Classroom	31	(2)
Purposes and Definition of Reflection	33	(3)
Reflection as Evaluation: What about Grades?	36	(1)
Notes	37	(2)
3 Practicing Democracy	39	(29)
Prelude: Perpetuating Dominance Despite Principles	39	(1)
Evolution of a Design	40	(2)
Resisting Authority and Authorizing Resistance: Students and Teachers Negotiate Control	42	(1)
Whose Vision Is This? On Artistry and Compromise	43	(4)
Artistic Compromise and Compromising Artistry	47	(6)
Binaries Blend When Students Exercise Power	53	(2)
Conflict, Paradox, and Social Change Emerge When Students Exercise Power	55	(7)
The CCPOC Fosters Positive Life Skills	62	(2)
Guidelines for Leading a Theatre Design CCPOC	64	(3)
Notes	67	(1)
4 Spotlighting Oppression	68	(29)
Prelude: "In the Center Ring...! Gender and Ethnicity on the High Wire!"	68	(1)
Evolution of a Play	69	(1)
Ways Students Exercise Power	70	(6)
Ways Teachers Temper Authority When "Process" Turns to "Product"	76	(4)
Ways Students and Teacher Unveil Whiteness in a "Safe Space with Consequences"	80	(7)
Ways Student Artistry Promotes Change	87	(5)
The Cominghome Pep Assembly and Play Production: Competing Tensions Coexist in the High School	92	(3)
Notes	95	(2)
5 Addressing Controversial Topics	97	(30)
Prelude: Desire for Transformation	97	(1)
Evolution of a Workshop	98	(26)
Integrating Radical Pedagogy and Conventional Frameworks	124	(3)
Coda	127	(1)
Notes	128	(3)
Epilogue	131	(2)
References	133	(8)
Index	141