Critical Literacy & Performance: Language in Action
Redemann, Joseph
2013-08-12
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Critical Literacy & Performance: Language in Action
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2013-08-12
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My Bachelor of Arts in Theatre Arts degree was originally undertaken as a performance
emphasis degree, in which I hoped to acquire the training to become a professional theatre artist
and actor. I have since realized that I hope to inspire students to feel the same way that I did
about the stage: confident, empowered, engaged in my learning. This project and paper depict
the beginnings of the process by which I will teach and empower students through storytelling,
writing, and acting in order to help them develop critical literacy skills that will help them
critically analyze and engage with their society. Through these non-traditional media of
education, students will discover new and exciting ways to learn in the classroom, as well as to
apply their classroom educations to their real-life experiences, connecting the theoretical with the
practical.
One will notice that this project, while containing a syllabus, a syllabus rationale, and
three lesson plans, this course plan is far from finished; this is intentional. My advisor and I
determined to set specific goals for the end of this semester, but that I would not submit a project
that will be a ‘capstone’ project, ending my college career and simply providing a ‘time capsule’
of my efforts on campus. I intended to create a project that would both show the trajectory of my
education at this school and propel me onward into the next phases of my life. This class outline
will never be entirely completed because my education will be a lifelong endeavor, and I will
constantly be revising my educational practice and adapting it to the needs of the students I am
with. That is the goal of a truly liberatory education: to serve the needs of the students. My thesis
project takes this form because it not only shows what I have done, it indicates what I will do,
serving my need to help guide me onward from this University as I seek to become an educator
and activist for social justice.
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Theatre Arts
College of Liberal Arts
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Redemann, Joseph. (2013). Critical Literacy & Performance: Language in Action. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/155331.
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