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Empathy, Social Intelligence And Critical Thinking: What Can Theatre Education Offer?, Jane Dewey
Empathy, Social Intelligence And Critical Thinking: What Can Theatre Education Offer?, Jane Dewey
MALS Final Projects, 1995-2019
This study examines the relationship of theatre, education, and emotional and social intelligence. The applied research component explores what theatrical processes can offer the efforts to address the issues of bullying by developing skills (focusing on empathy) to help deal with that issue in a substantive way. In this study, I provide a selected review of literature with regards to: how theatre has historically addressed social issues, the current state of bullying with an emphasis on bullying in schools, and how theatre is currently addressing the issue of bullying in both school and theatrical settings. The role that emotional and …