George
Belliveau, Carmen
Medina, Gus Weltsek (University of British
Columbia): Reflective practices in
drama teacher preparation
New
perspectives in teacher education calls for ways
to decenter our practices and reflect on the ideological discourses
that frame
approaches to teacher preparation. As a
group of newly hired professors asking how best to prepare drama
teachers, we
realize that our life journeys as artists and educators situate our
teaching in
particular ways. In this
performance/presentation we share the results of a collaborative
process of
self reflection. The performative approach allows the intersections,
contradictions and competing ideologies to become productive sites from
where
to begin devising and mapping effective teacher preparation in drama. The themes we share in this presentation
include the debates between drama as subject and/or as approach to
learning;
drama as process and/or as product; and drama in light of new literacy
studies,
particularly how drama as a socially situated practice is always
embedded in
particular social discourses.