M Prendergast
Biographic Data
| ID | 49392 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Prendergast |
| GIVEN NAMES | M |
| FAMILY NAME | Prendergast |
| SIGNATURE | PRENDERGAST M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Victoria |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4541-785X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 60 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Ethics in Research-Based Theater: Why Stories Matter
Curriculum violence in drama education
This article examines a concept called ‘curriculum violence’ that offers a contribution to the field of curriculum studies, in deepening both teachers’ and scholars’ awareness of the ways in which our best intentions in the drama classroom may lead to potential harm for our students. We present two drama structures, both Canadian; the first by Carole Miller and Juliana Saxton and the second by Larry Swartz and Debbie Nyman. We then discuss what w…
Two Poems: “Upon Hearing Rebecca Thomas” and “Upon Viewing Kent Monkman’s Miss Chief’s Wet Dream ”
These poems were written and shared during the October 2019 International Poetic Inquiry Symposium in Halifax, Nova Scotia
Thinking Beyond Failure
Beyond Failure: New Essays on the Cultural History of Failure in Theatre and Performance, edited by Tony Fisher and Eve Katsouraki, offers a contribution to the growing literature in performance studies and performance philosophy on the aesthetic potential of failure in performance practice. Fisher and Katsouraki frame failure as both painful and generative, nihilistic and utopian. Defining failure as “the pedagogy of futility,” the overarching q…
Applied Theatre and Education: We Are Not-Yet
In this article, we consider the relationship between education and applied theatre, the growth of applied theatre curricula within Canada, the issues that presently we identify as ‘productive tensions,’ and political and social concerns that now frame the ways in which we shape and conduct our practice. Our thoughts and suggestions, while limited by those constraints we offered above, may serve to open a space for discussion on what is and what …
Open Circle: Playing Coexistence in Ten Movements
The central focus of this article is Open Circle, a play written by Esther Uria-Iriarte that follows Arts Based Research (ABR) methods in theatrically interpreting the results of a doctoral research study carried out in four secondary schools in The Basque Country of Spain. The research aims to analyze the implications of theater as a methodological strategy for the improvement of coexistence in secondary students of The Basque Country. Open Circ…
Anecdotal
A poem based on an encounter with an audience member by the author following a prison theater production that the author was in as a mentor actor working alongside male inmates. The poem was presented as part of a panel on Applied Theater and Change-that is, how are we to know that change has occurred as a result of an applied theater experience or performance-at the triennial International Drama in Education Research Institute, University of Auc…
From theatre to performance studies: Collaborating on curriculum change with secondary level dramatic arts teachers
This essay presents a small-scale interview study interested in finding out how experienced secondary level drama teachers responded to their reading of a newly developed curriculum in performance studies. The curriculum was developed with funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the University of Victoria (2013–2017). We carried out interviews with seven experienced drama teachers in and around Victoria, Bri…
Insomni/ac/ademic: Poems
Seduction of the real: The significance of fiction in applied theatre
Running around with inmates, maps and swords: A reflective poetic-narrative autoethnography of a prison theatre production
In the fall of 2012, I was invited by a close colleague of mine to play the role of Thorin, Leader of the Dwarves, in a prison theatre production she was directing, an adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien
Philosophers and Thespians: Thinking Performance
This book, by theater historian and performance theorist Freddie Rokem, makes a significant contribution to both fields in its careful critical excavation of four “encounters” (both fictional and real) between philosophers and theater artists and through the theorization Rokem extends outward from these encounters, largely based on the thinking of Walter Benjamin. The relationship between theater and philosophy has been a long one, and indeed Rok…
Reflective praxis through narrative and poetry: Performing Peace Mum
Poetic Inquiry: Vibrant Voices in the Social Sciences
Poetic Inquiry: Vibrant Voices in the Social Sciences, co-edited by Monica Prendergast, Carl Leggo and Pauline Sameshima, features many of the foremost scholars working worldwide in aesthetic ways through poetry. The contributors (from five countries) are all committed to the use of poetry as a way to collect data, analyze findings and represent understandings in multidisciplinary social science qualitative research investigations. The creativity…
Poem is What?” Poetic Inquiry in Qualitative Social Science Research
This paper articulates the findings of a two-year Canadian federally-funded postdoctoral study — Poetic inquiry in qualitative research: A critical survey — on the use of poetry in social science qualitative research practices. Based on a 1000+ page annotated bibliography gathered into a critical anthology as the data for this project, the discoveries emerged that are expressed below. The bibliography consists solely of poems included in over 230…
The Scholar Dances
This poem was written in response to the speech given by Donald Blumenfeld-Jones in his role as Vice-President of Division B [Curriculum Studies] at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association meeting in April of 2006. Like many creative acts, it has required a long gestation and I have revisited it from time to time over the past 2 years. Creative researchers may struggle as do some artists with the process of letting-go;…
Found Poetry as Literature Review: Research Poems on Audience and Performance
Creating found poetry from theoretical literature offers an arts-based approach to literature review in inquiry. Found poetry has a long history of practice in poetry as the imaginative appropriation and reconstruction of already-existing texts. This article presents literature-voiced research found poems that express distillations and crystallizations of a wide range of writing in contemporary continental philosophy and performance theory. The s…
Shaped like a question mark’: Found poetry from Herbert Blau's The Audience
Performance theorist Herbert Blau's The Audience (Baltimore and London, Johns Hopkins Press, 1990) is an important yet neglected theoretical text on theatre audience. Deconstructive, dense and allusive in nature, Blau's text creates a real challenge for his reader. This paper presents a study of The Audience employing what I am calling literature-voiced research poetry. This consists of found poems created from certain kinds of theoretical texts,…
"The "Ideal Spectator: Dramatic Chorus, Collective Creation, and Curriculum
L'auteur produit une reflexion de praticien de l'enseignement concernant le developpement d'un projet pedagogique en education theâtrale integrant le concept de creation collective.
Poem is What?” Poetic Inquiry in Qualitative Social Science Research
This paper articulates the findings of a two-year Canadian federally-funded postdoctoral study — Poetic inquiry in qualitative research: A critical survey — on the use of poetry in social science qualitative research practices. Based on a 1000+ page annotated bibliography gathered into a critical anthology as the data for this project, the discoveries emerged that are expressed below. The bibliography consists solely of poems included in over 230…
Found Poetry as Literature Review: Research Poems on Audience and Performance
Creating found poetry from theoretical literature offers an arts-based approach to literature review in inquiry. Found poetry has a long history of practice in poetry as the imaginative appropriation and reconstruction of already-existing texts. This article presents literature-voiced research found poems that express distillations and crystallizations of a wide range of writing in contemporary continental philosophy and performance theory. The s…
Anecdotal
A poem based on an encounter with an audience member by the author following a prison theater production that the author was in as a mentor actor working alongside male inmates. The poem was presented as part of a panel on Applied Theater and Change-that is, how are we to know that change has occurred as a result of an applied theater experience or performance-at the triennial International Drama in Education Research Institute, University of Auc…
Insomni/ac/ademic: Poems
Shaped like a question mark’: Found poetry from Herbert Blau's The Audience
Performance theorist Herbert Blau's The Audience (Baltimore and London, Johns Hopkins Press, 1990) is an important yet neglected theoretical text on theatre audience. Deconstructive, dense and allusive in nature, Blau's text creates a real challenge for his reader. This paper presents a study of The Audience employing what I am calling literature-voiced research poetry. This consists of found poems created from certain kinds of theoretical texts,…
"The "Ideal Spectator: Dramatic Chorus, Collective Creation, and Curriculum
L'auteur produit une reflexion de praticien de l'enseignement concernant le developpement d'un projet pedagogique en education theâtrale integrant le concept de creation collective.
Found Poetry as Literature Review: Research Poems on Audience and Performance
Creating found poetry from theoretical literature offers an arts-based approach to literature review in inquiry. Found poetry has a long history of practice in poetry as the imaginative appropriation and reconstruction of already-existing texts. This article presents literature-voiced research found poems that express distillations and crystallizations of a wide range of writing in contemporary continental philosophy and performance theory. The s…
Poetic Inquiry: Vibrant Voices in the Social Sciences
Poetic Inquiry: Vibrant Voices in the Social Sciences, co-edited by Monica Prendergast, Carl Leggo and Pauline Sameshima, features many of the foremost scholars working worldwide in aesthetic ways through poetry. The contributors (from five countries) are all committed to the use of poetry as a way to collect data, analyze findings and represent understandings in multidisciplinary social science qualitative research investigations. The creativity…
Poem is What?” Poetic Inquiry in Qualitative Social Science Research
This paper articulates the findings of a two-year Canadian federally-funded postdoctoral study — Poetic inquiry in qualitative research: A critical survey — on the use of poetry in social science qualitative research practices. Based on a 1000+ page annotated bibliography gathered into a critical anthology as the data for this project, the discoveries emerged that are expressed below. The bibliography consists solely of poems included in over 230…
The Scholar Dances
This poem was written in response to the speech given by Donald Blumenfeld-Jones in his role as Vice-President of Division B [Curriculum Studies] at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association meeting in April of 2006. Like many creative acts, it has required a long gestation and I have revisited it from time to time over the past 2 years. Creative researchers may struggle as do some artists with the process of letting-go;…
Reflective praxis through narrative and poetry: Performing Peace Mum
Philosophers and Thespians: Thinking Performance
This book, by theater historian and performance theorist Freddie Rokem, makes a significant contribution to both fields in its careful critical excavation of four “encounters” (both fictional and real) between philosophers and theater artists and through the theorization Rokem extends outward from these encounters, largely based on the thinking of Walter Benjamin. The relationship between theater and philosophy has been a long one, and indeed Rok…
Running around with inmates, maps and swords: A reflective poetic-narrative autoethnography of a prison theatre production
In the fall of 2012, I was invited by a close colleague of mine to play the role of Thorin, Leader of the Dwarves, in a prison theatre production she was directing, an adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien
Seduction of the real: The significance of fiction in applied theatre
From theatre to performance studies: Collaborating on curriculum change with secondary level dramatic arts teachers
This essay presents a small-scale interview study interested in finding out how experienced secondary level drama teachers responded to their reading of a newly developed curriculum in performance studies. The curriculum was developed with funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the University of Victoria (2013–2017). We carried out interviews with seven experienced drama teachers in and around Victoria, Bri…
Insomni/ac/ademic: Poems
Applied Theatre and Education: We Are Not-Yet
In this article, we consider the relationship between education and applied theatre, the growth of applied theatre curricula within Canada, the issues that presently we identify as ‘productive tensions,’ and political and social concerns that now frame the ways in which we shape and conduct our practice. Our thoughts and suggestions, while limited by those constraints we offered above, may serve to open a space for discussion on what is and what …
Open Circle: Playing Coexistence in Ten Movements
The central focus of this article is Open Circle, a play written by Esther Uria-Iriarte that follows Arts Based Research (ABR) methods in theatrically interpreting the results of a doctoral research study carried out in four secondary schools in The Basque Country of Spain. The research aims to analyze the implications of theater as a methodological strategy for the improvement of coexistence in secondary students of The Basque Country. Open Circ…
Anecdotal
A poem based on an encounter with an audience member by the author following a prison theater production that the author was in as a mentor actor working alongside male inmates. The poem was presented as part of a panel on Applied Theater and Change-that is, how are we to know that change has occurred as a result of an applied theater experience or performance-at the triennial International Drama in Education Research Institute, University of Auc…
Thinking Beyond Failure
Beyond Failure: New Essays on the Cultural History of Failure in Theatre and Performance, edited by Tony Fisher and Eve Katsouraki, offers a contribution to the growing literature in performance studies and performance philosophy on the aesthetic potential of failure in performance practice. Fisher and Katsouraki frame failure as both painful and generative, nihilistic and utopian. Defining failure as “the pedagogy of futility,” the overarching q…
Two Poems: “Upon Hearing Rebecca Thomas” and “Upon Viewing Kent Monkman’s Miss Chief’s Wet Dream ”
These poems were written and shared during the October 2019 International Poetic Inquiry Symposium in Halifax, Nova Scotia
Ethics in Research-Based Theater: Why Stories Matter
Curriculum violence in drama education
This article examines a concept called ‘curriculum violence’ that offers a contribution to the field of curriculum studies, in deepening both teachers’ and scholars’ awareness of the ways in which our best intentions in the drama classroom may lead to potential harm for our students. We present two drama structures, both Canadian; the first by Carole Miller and Juliana Saxton and the second by Larry Swartz and Debbie Nyman. We then discuss what w…
Art (19 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Literature (14 works) · Visual arts (11 works) · Aesthetics (10 works) · Poetry (10 works) · Theatre and Performance Studies (10 works) · Pedagogy (8 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Art Education and Development (6 works)