Nelson, Bethany

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Urban playmaking: constructivist teaching with a radical agenda

by Nelson, Bethany

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This book explores the concept of playmaking and activism through three research projects in which culturally and linguistically diverse high school students and young adults created original theatre around the issues that inform their lives and constrain their futures. Each stu…

UP

Urban playmaking: constructivist teaching with a radical agenda

by Nelson, Bethany

0 Type: Book

This book explores the concept of playmaking and activism through three research projects in which culturally and linguistically diverse high school students and young adults created original theatre around the issues that inform their lives and constrain their futures. Each stu…

This three phase research project, conducted with low-income students of color in an urban high school, addresses the use of process drama and playmaking as primary modes for addressing components of best practice in multicultural education, and altering the reproduction of hege…