Critical pedagogies and the theatre laboratory
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15080663 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jonathan Heron (0000-0001-5642-3879, Institute for Advanced Teaching and Learning, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK, corresponding author), Nicholas Johnson (0000-0002-6361-5593, Trinity College Dublin) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 282-287 |
| Publication date | 2017-04-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Research in Drama Education The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1356-9783 • E-ISSN: 1470-112X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13569783.2017.1293513 |
| OpenAlex | W2597661531 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 5 |
This dialogue contributes reflections on the ‘theatre laboratory’ to the scholarly debate surrounding methodologies of drama education and applied performance. The co-authors suggest that the experimental and ensemble-led approach of the Samuel Beckett Laboratory, founded at Trinity College Dublin in 2013 as a space for research into Beckett in performance, may offer one response to a question that Kathleen Gallagher proposes in the twentieth Anniversary issue of RiDE (20.3), concerning ‘how drama educators might incorporate such practices of hope into their pedagogy’ [2015. “Beckoning Hope and Care.” RIDE: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Drama Education 20 (3): 423]. This work suggests that the hopeful practice of laboratory exploration de-hierarchises a scholarly endeavour and recasts the student as co-creator of knowledge, rather than consumer of cultural capital. The values and practices of such a laboratory may open one avenue of participatory pedagogy that scaffolds risk and re-values failure. In the dialogue that follows, we draw on Gallagher’s ‘practices of hope’ to develop our own interests in the subjunctivity of performance pedagogies in Beckettian contexts [cf. Heron, J., N. Johnson, B. Dinçel, G. Quinn, S. J. Scaife, and Á. Tyrrell, 2014. “The Samuel Beckett Laboratory 2013.” Journal of Beckett Studies 23 (1): 73–94]
Aesthetics · Art · Citizen journalism · Drama · Heron · Media studies · Pedagogy · Political science · Sociology · Visual arts · Law · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Samuel Beckett and Modernism · Theatre and Performance Studies
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.8 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2025 (5) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |