Artistic literacy [electronic resource] : theatre studies and a contemporary liberal education / Nancy Kindelan.

Explores ways undergraduate theatre programs can play a significant role in accomplishing the aims and learning outcomes of a contemporary liberal education. Kindelan argues that theatre's signature pedagogy helps all undergraduates become actively engaged in developing critical and value-focus...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Main Author: Kindelan, Nancy Anne
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Arts in higher education.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: a call to action
  • The makings of a contemporary liberal education
  • The evolution of the liberal arts
  • The evolution of theatre studies programs
  • A contemporary liberal education
  • The pedagogies and strategies of theatre studies
  • Setting the stage for learning in the twenty-first century
  • Intentional learning through the art of the theatre
  • Rehearsing for participatory democracy
  • Artistic literacy in action
  • Artistic literacy and the twenty-first-century workforce.