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Arts and Humanities

2010

Drama in education

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Affirmative Acts: The Need For American Black Theatre In The Classroom, Angela Batrice Brooks-Van Niel Jan 2010

Affirmative Acts: The Need For American Black Theatre In The Classroom, Angela Batrice Brooks-Van Niel

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this study is to reveal that racial inequality in American Theatre is still in existence: that while our country has gained some level of integration, several societal and artistic echelons evidence a remaining tendency towards discrimination--a separatist sense of culture that unfortunately informs elementary and secondary classrooms all across the United States as well as still exists in the general arts.


Pinch Play Puppet Project, Carolyn Faye Mattson Jan 2010

Pinch Play Puppet Project, Carolyn Faye Mattson

Theses Digitization Project

The project was designed to investigate issues and ideas of developing a play adapted from a children's book to bring "history to life" for a modern family. The research model was designed to be a tool for the evaluation of the material presented. It was constructed to allow student practitioners to participate in the exploration and discovery of the creative process and improve their understanding of implementing theatre practices to teach required subjects.


Using The California Content Standards With Readers Theatre In The Classroom, Arlene Frances Delgado Jan 2010

Using The California Content Standards With Readers Theatre In The Classroom, Arlene Frances Delgado

Theses Digitization Project

The focus of this project is to use readers theatre to enhance the language arts skills of the low socio-economic student population and the Hispanic population in the classroom. The author created some of her own activities and incorporated them with readers theatre to increase the critical thinking skills of her students in order to score proficient and advance in the assessments used in this project.