An a/r/tographic exploration of engagement in theatrical performance: What does this mean for the student/teacher relationship?
Journal article
Authors | Bird, D. and Tozer, Katy |
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Abstract | With an emphasis on self-study and the connections between the personal and the professional domain, the authors reflect upon their teaching practice on a postgraduate theatre-based course using the research methodology of a/r/tography. The aim was to develop understanding of teacher/student roles and how these can affect learning. Through researcher reflexivity, focus groups and questionnaires, data were captured from students/participants responding to a video of the researcher’s solo performance work. The research presents itself through three a/r/tographic renderings. First, the experience of seeing tutors in unfamiliar roles is considered. Second, the impact of witnessing tutors taking risks as a performer and being vulnerable is discussed and, lastly, the work illuminates new ways of opening up as teachers. The authors explore how the student’s/participant’s perception of them as tutors seemed to change after witnessing them as artists and how this impacted upon student’s learning for their own assessed performance pieces. |
Keywords | a/r/tography; Solo performance; Student-teacher dynamic; Reflexivity; Focus groups; Questionnaire; Teacher as artist; Roles |
Year | 2018 |
Journal | Arts and Humanities in Higher Education |
Publisher | Sage |
ISSN | 14740222 |
1741265X | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1177/1474022218787167 |
Web address (URL) | http://hdl.handle.net/10545/622808 |
hdl:10545/622808 | |
Publication dates | 11 Jul 2018 |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 16 Jul 2018, 08:24 |
Accepted | 06 Jun 2018 |
Rights | Archived with thanks to Arts and Humanities in Higher Education |
Contributors | University of Derby, University of Derby, UK and University of Derby, UK |
File | File Access Level Controlled |
File | File Access Level Open |
https://repository.derby.ac.uk/item/935y7/an-a-r-tographic-exploration-of-engagement-in-theatrical-performance-what-does-this-mean-for-the-student-teacher-relationship
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