Chapter in Edited Volume
My book chapter in Lisa S. Brenner, Chris Ceraso, and Evelyn Diaz Cruz’s edited book, Applied Theatre with Youth: Education, Engagement, Activism, uses content analysis and youth participatory action research, to consider outputs from a digital storytelling exchange project between elementary school students in Alaska and Texas. Here, I describe my pedagogy within a digital storytelling project to illuminate how to support young children to use their imaginations, bodies, and funds of knowledge to intervene into stereotypical narratives about indigenous people
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Except from a review of APPLIED THEATRE WITH YOUTH
By Courtney McEniry
Applied Theatre with Youth: Education, Engagement, Activism introduces us to the current work of dozens of artists who are co-creating alongside young people. The structure of this text alone is a contribution to the field: editors Lisa S. Brenner, Chris Ceraso, and Evelyn Diaz Cruz facilitate a dynamic, dialogic exchange between contributors while curating an archive of case studies. Applied Theatre with Youth addresses a great need for academic texts that center the voices of practitioners outside of academia, analyze the structural contexts within which practitioners work, and exclusively consider the challenges and opportunities of applied performance with young artists…The anthology [also] includes purposeful representation of scholars from varying geographic areas, career stages, methodologies, and institutional contexts.”
Knipp, Cortney McEniry. Review of Applied Theatre with Youth: Education, Engagement, Activism ed. by Lisa S. Brenner, Chris Ceraso, and Evelyn Diaz Cruz, and: Applied Theatre: A Pedagogy of Utopia, by Selina Busby. Theatre Topics, vol. 32 no. 3, 2022, p. 156-157. Project MUSE, https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/tt.2022.0030.
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