Anne Wessels
Biographic Data
| ID | 6807607 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anne Wessels |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anne |
| FAMILY NAME | Wessels |
| SIGNATURE | WESSELS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Greenbelt or gutter’: Youth ‘place-based’ performance and the myth of the suburban/urban divide
A youth-created ‘place-based’ performance set in the grounds of their suburban school challenged the myth of the suburban/urban divide that pits the edenic suburb against the dirty and crime-ridden city. Depicting the power relations of a failed utopia, these youth provoked the researcher to embark on further inquiry, analysing other empirical material collected through ethnographic interviews as well as relevant literature regarding the historic…
Between the frames: Youth spectatorship and theatre as curated, ‘unruly’ pedagogical space
In this article, we consider the aesthetic, political and pedagogical strengths of a verbatim theatre performance, The Middle Place by Project: Humanity, a play that explores the experiences of shelter youth in Toronto, Canada. This ethnographic study moved from drama classrooms into theatres and charted audience responses to the production, its pre- and post-show programming and the company's curation of the theatre space. Using data from post-p…
From Playbuilding to Devising in Literacy Education: Aesthetic and Pedagogical Approaches
The field of literacy education encompasses many different modalities of reading and writing the world, including those of drama, theatre, and performance practiced in both school and community settings. As contemporary theatre practices have broadened performance creation approaches available to literacy and arts educators working with youth and adults, playbuilding and devising offer two modes of creating student‐authored collective performance…
Becoming a networked public: Digital ethnography, youth and global research collectives
The following article describes a research context that has privileged both virtual and placed-based ethnographic fieldwork, using a hybrid methodology of live and digital communications across school sites in Toronto, Canada; Lucknow, India; Taipei, Taiwan; and Boston, USA. The multi-site ethnographic study is concerned with questions of school (dis)engagement, as experienced by young people often marked as ‘disadvantaged’ and ‘marginal’ to the …
Plague and paideia: Sabotage in devising theatre with young people
This ethnography, completed by the classroom teacher in a publicly funded secondary school in Mississauga, Canada, explores issues of conflict and sabotage that affected a devising project with suburban young people. The processes of devising generated ethnographic data that included a play script and videotaped rehearsals and performances. As well, individual interviews were conducted at the start and the end of the project. Excerpts from these …
Abstracts in Spanish and French
Becoming a networked public: Digital ethnography, youth and global research collectives
The following article describes a research context that has privileged both virtual and placed-based ethnographic fieldwork, using a hybrid methodology of live and digital communications across school sites in Toronto, Canada; Lucknow, India; Taipei, Taiwan; and Boston, USA. The multi-site ethnographic study is concerned with questions of school (dis)engagement, as experienced by young people often marked as ‘disadvantaged’ and ‘marginal’ to the …
Plague and paideia: Sabotage in devising theatre with young people
This ethnography, completed by the classroom teacher in a publicly funded secondary school in Mississauga, Canada, explores issues of conflict and sabotage that affected a devising project with suburban young people. The processes of devising generated ethnographic data that included a play script and videotaped rehearsals and performances. As well, individual interviews were conducted at the start and the end of the project. Excerpts from these …
Abstracts in Spanish and French
Between the frames: Youth spectatorship and theatre as curated, ‘unruly’ pedagogical space
In this article, we consider the aesthetic, political and pedagogical strengths of a verbatim theatre performance, The Middle Place by Project: Humanity, a play that explores the experiences of shelter youth in Toronto, Canada. This ethnographic study moved from drama classrooms into theatres and charted audience responses to the production, its pre- and post-show programming and the company's curation of the theatre space. Using data from post-p…
From Playbuilding to Devising in Literacy Education: Aesthetic and Pedagogical Approaches
The field of literacy education encompasses many different modalities of reading and writing the world, including those of drama, theatre, and performance practiced in both school and community settings. As contemporary theatre practices have broadened performance creation approaches available to literacy and arts educators working with youth and adults, playbuilding and devising offer two modes of creating student‐authored collective performance…
Becoming a networked public: Digital ethnography, youth and global research collectives
The following article describes a research context that has privileged both virtual and placed-based ethnographic fieldwork, using a hybrid methodology of live and digital communications across school sites in Toronto, Canada; Lucknow, India; Taipei, Taiwan; and Boston, USA. The multi-site ethnographic study is concerned with questions of school (dis)engagement, as experienced by young people often marked as ‘disadvantaged’ and ‘marginal’ to the …
Greenbelt or gutter’: Youth ‘place-based’ performance and the myth of the suburban/urban divide
A youth-created ‘place-based’ performance set in the grounds of their suburban school challenged the myth of the suburban/urban divide that pits the edenic suburb against the dirty and crime-ridden city. Depicting the power relations of a failed utopia, these youth provoked the researcher to embark on further inquiry, analysing other empirical material collected through ethnographic interviews as well as relevant literature regarding the historic…
Art (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · Drama (4 works) · Ethnography (4 works) · Visual arts (4 works) · Participatory Visual Research Methods (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Theatre and Performance Studies (3 works) · Art Education and Development (2 works)