Teaching strategies for neurodiversity and dyslexia in actor training : sensing Shakespeare / Petronilla Whitfield.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Whitfield, Petronilla, author.

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Acting--Study and teaching.

Acting.

People with disabilities and the performing arts.

Physical Description:

xiv, 218 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.

Summary:

"Teaching Strategies for Neurodiversity and Dyslexia in Actor Training addresses some of the challenges met by acting students with dyslexia and highlights the abilities demonstrated by individuals with specific learning differences in actor training. The book offers six tested teaching strategies, created from practical and theoretical research investigations with dyslexic acting students, using the methodologies of case study and action research. Utilising Shakespeare's text as a laboratory of practice and drawing directly from the voices and practical work of the dyslexic students themselves, the book explores: - the stress caused by dyslexia and how the teacher might ameliorate it through changes in their practice - the theories and discourse surrounding the label of dyslexia - the visual, kinaesthetic and multisensory processing preferences demonstrated by some acting students assessed as dyslexic - acting approaches for engaging with Shakespeare's language, enabling those with dyslexia to develop their authentic voice and abilities - A grounding of the words and the meaning of the text through embodied cognition, spatial awareness and epistemic tools - Stanislavski's method of units and actions and how it can benefit and obstruct the student with dyslexia when working on Shakespeare - Interpretive Mnemonics as a memory support and hermeneutic process, and the use of colour and drawing towards an autonomy in live performance This book is a valuable resource for voice and actor training, professional performance, and for those who are curious about emancipatory methods that support difference through humanistic teaching philosophies"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Part I The Background to the Investigatory Practice p. 1

2 Pedagogy and Education in Actor Training: Towards an Emancipatory Practice p. 11

3 David - the Inspiration and Initiator of My Study p. 21

4 Matters of Dyslexia p. 33

5 Shakespeare as Laboratory and Reader as Creator p. 50

Part II The Investigatory Practice and Teaching Strategies One to Six p. 65

6 The Theoretical Perspectives and Methodology: Attaining a Verstehen through Action Research Underpinned by Case Study p. 67

7 Finding the Way In: Picture Thinking p. 73

8 Images as Visible Thought, Acting Stimulus, and Mnemonic Pegs: Action Research (Cycle One) and Teaching Strategy One p. 82

9 The Physical Path and Stanislavski's Actions: Action in Pursuit of the Objective or as an Anchor of Verbal Meaning? p. 103

10 A Trial of the Physical Actions Method Inspired by Stanislavski: Action Research (Cycle Two) and Teaching Strategy Two p. 124

11 Grasping Towards Being Present in the Text, Entangling Meaning into Memory: Action Research (Cycle Three) and Teaching Strategy Three p. 150

12 The Creation of Mnemotechnics Towards a Memoria Rerum (Memory for Things and Ideas) and Memoria Verboram (Memory for Words) p. 162

13 The Micro and Macro Strategy - Deconstructing and Reconstructing Meaning and. Significance in Shakespeare's Text Towards Performance: Action Research (Cycles Four and Five) and Teaching Strategies Four and Five p. 177

14 Interpretive Mnemonics, Distributed Cognition, and Authenticity of Self: The Research Findings, Action Research (Cycle Six) and Teaching Strategy Six p. 195.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9781138311848

9781138311817

1138311812

1138311847

OCLC:

1096236572

Publisher Number:

99983677166