Athabasca’s Going Unmanned / by Diane Conrad.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

MacDermott, Diane.

Series:

Social Fictions Series ; 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education.

Local Subjects:

Education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (194 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2012.

Place of Publication:

Rotterdam : SensePublishers : Imprint: SensePublishers, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Athabasca’s Going Unmanned is set in a youth offender jail in Alberta, Canada and tells the story of three incarcerated youth and the corrections staff who work with them. The story centres on an escape plot hatched by the inmates and ultimately examines the needs of incarcerated youth and the prospects for offering them programming with transformative potential. Based on extensive research with “at-risk” youth and incarcerated youth, the play addresses a range of real-world issues with sociological, criminal justice, policy and educational implications. Moreover, issues of race and ethnicity feature prominently. The play raises many challenging issues at the level of fantasy and imagination in order to draw attention to and elicit discussion around these controversial issues. As a means of disseminating the research, ethnodrama aims to engage a more diverse audience and engender empathic understandings of the experiences of incarcerated youth leading to more constructive attitudes regarding their needs, with the potential for radically re-envisioning social relations. The book is an ideal supplemental text for courses in education, sociology, criminology/ criminal justice, theatre arts and arts-based research. The fictionalized format invites readers to engage with complex questions without relying on an “authoritative” text that closes off meaning-making. Rather, readers are invited into the meaning-making process as they engage with the play and its alternative endings. Diane Conrad is Associate Professor of Drama/Theatre Education in the Department of Secondary Education at the University of Alberta. The research upon which the play is based, in 2006, was awarded the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Aurora Prize recognizing a new researcher building a reputation for exciting and original research in the social sciences or humanities.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Prologue

Scene 1 - The Escape

Scene 2 - New Program Director

Scene 3 - Val Meets the Boys

Scene 4 - Val & Randy

Scene 5 - Dreamcatchers

Scene 6 - The Crash

Scene 7 - Stan’s Comic

Scene 8 - Jim’s Warning

Scene 9 - Escape Plot Inception

Scene 10 - Randy’s Roommate

Scene 11 - Alternatives

Scene 12 - The Betrayal

Scene 13 - Amy’s Release

Scene 14 - Commodifying Culture

Scene 15 - Randy’s Gift

Scene 16 - Eileen’s Teachings

Scene 17 - Performing Escape

Scene 18 - Wesley’s Madness

Scene 19 - The Take-Down

Scene 20 - Val’s Cut

Scene 21 - Randy’s Birthday

Scene 22 - Jim’s Reprimand

Scene 23 - The Rejection

Scene 24 - Get-Away Car

Scene 25 - Randy’s Dream

Scene 26 - Building Trust

Scene 27 - Denial

Scene 28 - The Scandal

Scene 29 - Jim’s Accusation

Scene 30 - The Right Thing (Performing Escape VI - Escaping the Escape Plan)

Scene 31 - Indian Rebellion (Performing Escape V - Escaping Colonialism)

Scene 32 - Randy’s Request

Epilogue.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9786613709639

9781280799242

1280799242

9789460917745

9460917747

OCLC:

783529015