Equipped with cultural tools like cell phones, computers and video cameras, youth are called upon to improvise and construct themselves symbolically in a continuously connected world; yet new teachers and students are still expected to learn and deliver standardized, placeless forms of scripted curriculum. This volume argues for improvisation as an approach to curriculum that recognizes the fundamentally creative aspects of learning that are often marginalized in communities of disadvantage. It provides interesting possibilities for schools that are working hard to keep up with technological, economic and cultural change, and argues for an improvised middle ground between structure and creativity. This volume outlines a two-year research project performed in a Canadian middle school, where school staff used student filmmaking as a way to expand teachers’ conceptions of literacy. It analyzes the response of students and parents as well as the student teachers that brought the program to the school. The improvisational techniques used while making the films paved the way for larger benefits of curricular improvisation to be explored.
Miss Scott—matron of the hospital where girls are taken for physical insanity testing Dr. Field—doctor examining girls in hospital for insanity Miss Tillie Maynard—patient committed with Bly Miss Annie Neville—patient committed with Bly ...
And with this book, Dr. Gordon provides the sequential tools general music teachers and students need to begin improvising.
Improvisation is recognized internationally as an exciting tool to jumpstart learning. In this practical book, teachers will discover how to use improv throughout the K–8 curriculum to boost creativity and...
3.1 “Mood Music,” Fairview South Elementary School Band, Director: Nicholas Conner 4.1 “Celestial Navigation,” Herricks High School Chamber Choir, unison, Director: Louise O'Hanlon 4.2 “Celestial Navigation,” Herricks High School ...
Yes and: The uses of improvisation for early childhood teacher development. ... Unscripted learning: Using improv activities across theK-8 curriculum. ... Pretend play as improvisation: Conversation in the preschool classroom.
Sawyer, Pretend Play as Improvisation, xxv. 7. Corsaro, Friendship and Peer Culture. 8. Kartomi, “Musical Improvisations by Children at Play.” 9. Sawyer, Pretend Play as Improvisation. 10. Blacking, Venda Children's Songs. 11.
Pedagogy, Policy and the Privatized City intersperses student writings about “dispossession and defiance” in New Orleans with pieces by distinguished scholars that connect the students' concerns to critiques of neoliberal privatization ...
In Play Your Way Sane, Dr. Clay Drinko offers 120 low-key, accessible activities that draw on the popular principles of improv comedy to help you tackle your everyday stress and reconnect with the people around you.
That is because this book represents the perspectives of university- based instructors, school partners, former students, and graduate student researchers, each of whom contribute a different and valued voice to the whole composition.
MENC: The National Association for Music Education