Encountering Texts

The Multicultural Theatre Project and «Minority» Literature

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Joi Carr

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Critical Praxis and Curriculum Guides

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Encountering Texts represents the theory and praxis uncovered through an ongoing interdisciplinary arts-based critical pedagogy that engages students in critical self-reflection (disciplined, sustained thinking, requiring engagement) on difference. The Multicultural Theatre Project (MTP) is a dialogical encounter with literature through the dramatic arts. This book provides a blueprint for the multiple ways in which this enacted theory/method can be utilized as a high impact practice toward transformative learning. The significance of minority literature as fertile testing ground for raising and seeking to answer questions about difference is undisputed. To address this dynamic, this research utilizes Hans-Georg Gadamer’s hermeneutical method of understanding to engage students in the interpretive process using theatre as methodology. Gadamer’s concept, described as a fusion of horizons, provides a methodological approach by which students can bring their own «effective history» to the hermeneutical task. He argues that hidden prejudices keep the interpreter from hearing the text. Thus an awareness of these prejudices leads to an openness that allows the text to speak. The MTP facilitates this kind of subjectivity by engaging the interpreter holistically. This integrative work provides a promising pragmatic interdisciplinary approach to teaching and learning that creates bridges to liberatory knowledge, both cognitively and affectively.

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Joi Carr is Associate Professor of English and Film Studies at Pepperdine University, Seaver College, and serves as the Director of Film Studies and the Director of the Multicultural Theatre Project. She received her PhD in English and film from Claremont Graduate University.

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August 25th, 2015

Author

Joi Carr

Series

Critical Praxis and Curriculum Guides

Pages

250

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New edition

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Professional & Vocational

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150x220x18

ISBN-13

9781433124358

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24009050

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