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Challenging Compliance: Activating Citizens for Change
No full textThis chapter discusses the role of Applied Theatre as a tool for facilitating the development of active citizens within the troubled and tumultuous reality of the United States in 2020. The U.S. is locked in a cycle of increasing socio-economic and racial inequity that disadvantages a substantial number of its citizens (Chomsky in Polychroniou 2017). Rather than challenging these inequities and building an aware and engaged citizenry, schools reflect and perpetuate them, particularly in under-resourced urban areas (Giroux 2018). Applied Theatre approaches are tools for helping students in the U.S. engage with and challenge existing definitions of citizenship in the public sphere. True citizenship involves agency, students’ understanding of societal dynamics that suppress action, and a drive to work for change. The varied expectations regarding what it means to be a citizen coincide, collude and, sometimes, collide with Applied Theatre approaches utilised in schools and communities. This chapter asks: In this time of upheaval and change, what role(s) should we, as Applied Theatre practitioners, play? Who are we here for, and to what end(s)? Are we a reflection of the dynamics that shape our inequitable society, a mirror of ‘what is?’ Or are we change agents, working with students and communities to re-imagine a more just alternative through the creation of an active citizenry
Scribner\u27s Bookstore: All the Good Horses
No full textIn 1989, a literary landmark in New York City closed. Scribner’s Bookstore, 597 Fifth Avenue, stood at the epicentre of Manhattan’s retail district. The Scribner’s publishing company was then 153 years old. In the 1920s, driven by genius editor Max Perkins, Scribner’s published Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Wolfe. Scribner’s Magazine was The New Yorker of its day. The bookshop and publisher occupied a 10-storey Beaux-Arts building, designed by Ernest Flagg, which eventually won protection from the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. Medallions honoured printers Benjamin Franklin, William Caxton, Johann Gutenberg, and Aldus Manutius. The ‘Byzantine cathedral of books’ offered deeply informed personal service. But the paperback revolution gained momentum, bookshop chains like Barnes & Noble and Brentano’s adopted extreme discounting, and the no-discounting Scribner’s business model became unsustainable. Real estate developers swooped in. The bookshop’s ignominious end came when Italian clothier Benetton took over its space
Pictures, Filters, and Politics: Instagram’s Role in Political Image-Making and Storytelling in Canada
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Naga
No full textNaga is a fantasy opera based on Chinese folk characters, written in collaboration with immigrant librettist (ethnic Chinese from Singapore) Cerise Lim Jacob
When Television Came of Age - A Scholarly Compilation of Great Interviews and Milestones
No full textA scholarly compilation of great interviews we conducted during our 35-year careers exploring the milestones, innovative people and dynamics that brought ordinary TV into the interactive realm in the 1970s, 1980s and beyond. Stark parallels are drawn to the challenges and opportunities confronting multi-screen streaming today
Moving beyond binaries: Appreciating the complexities of autism and language learning (Response to Kissine)
No full textWe discuss three points relevant to Kissine\u27s (2021) target article on autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and its implications for theories of language acquisition. First, we argue that individuals with ASD do have social communication abilities and that these are linked to their language abilities; therefore, ASD does not provide evidence that language competence and language use are dissociable. Second, we argue that typically developing children show remarkable abilities to learn new words in noninteractive situations, and thus these abilities are not unique to ASD. Third, we point out that even noninteractive situations can serve as models for, and can implicate, children\u27s social communication abilities. In sum, we agree with Kissine that children (with and without ASD) are skilled language learners, able to take diverse paths to learning and to benefit from many different kinds of learning situations. However, as to whether these abilities in themselves demonstrate a threat to constructionist approaches to language acquisition, we do not think that Kissine has accrued a compelling case
millennium pop: music, love and squalor 1986-2001
No full textAn anthology of music criticism from the past 35 years, including sections on Dylan, Beatles, Book reviews, NPR, and more
Asma Jahangir: The face of Pakistan\u27s \u27silent revolution\u27 (in anthology Voices of Freedom from Asia and the Middle East)
No full textEssay on the late human rights lawyer and UN Special Rapporteur Asma Jahangi
Teaching through Community Partnerships: A Faculty Development Initiative to Expand Civically Engaged Pedagogy
No full textEric Gordon (VMA) was awarded a $238,000 grant from the Davis Educational Foundation which will fund the growth of the college’s partnered studios programs through the college’s Engagement Lab. Partnered studios courses integrate teaching, research, and hands-on practice to address social challenges in the local community, and allow students, faculty, and outside community organizations to collaborate in an alternative learning environment