It's All Critical: Acting Teachers' Beliefs About Theater Classes.

ABSTRACT: Acting classes and theater education have long been framed as activities during which children can learn skills that transfer outside the acting classroom. A growing empirical literature provides evidence for acting classes' efficacy in teaching vocabulary, narrative, empathy, theory of mind, and emotional control. Yet these studies have not been based in what is actually happening in the acting classroom, nor on what acting teachers report as their pedagogical strategies. Instead, previous work has been unsystematic and fragmented in its measured transfer outcomes, and absent mechanistic explanation. Expanding research on this topic requires more grounding in teachers' beliefs about the acting classes they teach, as well as observation of the classes themselves. As a first step, we survey

SUBMITTER: Goldstein TR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7248218 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature