Representation and Reception
Brechtian 'Pedagogics of Theatre' and Critical Thinking
Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, European, German, Nonfiction, Computers, Advanced Computing, Computer Science, Reference & Language, Education & Teaching, Administration
| Author: | Shehla Burney | ISBN: | 9781433148576 |
| Publisher: | Peter Lang | Publication: | January 22, 2018 |
| Imprint: | Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers | Language: | English |
| Author: | Shehla Burney |
| ISBN: | 9781433148576 |
| Publisher: | Peter Lang |
| Publication: | January 22, 2018 |
| Imprint: | Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers |
| Language: | English |
Representation and Reception: Brechtian ‘Pedagogics of Theatre’ and Critical Thinking deploys German playwright Bertolt Brecht’s theory of drama and performance, what he calls "the pedagogics of theatre", to create modes of critical thinking in the classroom. Extrapolating on Brecht’s estranged forms of representation—narrative, story, montage, Verfremdüngseffeckt or alienation, tableaux, ostension (showing), gestus, masks and music—Burney constructs an original "3-R Pedagogy" or "spiral of semiosis"—"Rethinking/Replaying/Re-cognition"—that is designed to create critical thinking and "complex seeing". Her dramatic production of Brecht’s Lehrstück, or learning-play, The Exception and the Rule, for a non-literate, working-class audience in Hyderabad, India, critically analyses how audiences make meaning through image, word and ideology, gesture, memory, collective experience and personal
(hi)stories.
Representation and Reception: Brechtian ‘Pedagogics of Theatre’ and Critical Thinking deploys German playwright Bertolt Brecht’s theory of drama and performance, what he calls "the pedagogics of theatre", to create modes of critical thinking in the classroom. Extrapolating on Brecht’s estranged forms of representation—narrative, story, montage, Verfremdüngseffeckt or alienation, tableaux, ostension (showing), gestus, masks and music—Burney constructs an original "3-R Pedagogy" or "spiral of semiosis"—"Rethinking/Replaying/Re-cognition"—that is designed to create critical thinking and "complex seeing". Her dramatic production of Brecht’s Lehrstück, or learning-play, The Exception and the Rule, for a non-literate, working-class audience in Hyderabad, India, critically analyses how audiences make meaning through image, word and ideology, gesture, memory, collective experience and personal
(hi)stories.
