Teaching Theatre Today: Pedagogical Views of Theatre in Higher Education

Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Introduction....Pages 1-6
Changing Views of Knowledge and the Struggle for Undergraduate Theatre Curriculum, 1900–1980....Pages 7-30
On Theatre History: Historical Study in the Theatre Curriculum....Pages 31-49
The Teaching of Acting in American Colleges and Universities, 1920–1960....Pages 51-63
The Pedagogy of Directing, 1920–1990: Seventy Years of Teaching the Unteachable....Pages 65-81
Playwriting: A Pedagogy of Transmutation....Pages 83-102
Acting and Movement Training as a Pedagogy of the Body....Pages 103-124
All Things to All People: The Teaching of Introduction to Theatre in American Universities and Colleges....Pages 125-144
Teaching Design in a World Without Design: Part II....Pages 145-155
Technology and Theatre Pedagogy: A Call from the Trenches....Pages 157-173
Deconstructing the Dominant: Educational Theatre in Historically Black Colleges and Universities as Critical Pedagogy Sites....Pages 175-193
“Imaginative Collaboration”: Pedagogical Issues in African-American Theatre History....Pages 195-204
Balancing Acts: Teaching Theatre in British Higher Education Today....Pages 205-217
Preparing Future Teachers of Theatre: Pedagogical Issues and Current Practice....Pages 219-232
Back Matter....Pages 233-247