The improviser's classroom : pedagogies for cocreative worldmaking / edited by Daniel Fischlin and Mark Lomanno.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fischlin, Daniel, editor.

Lomanno, Mark, editor.

Series:

Insubordinate spaces.

Insubordinate Spaces Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Culturally relevant pedagogy.

Improvisation (Music)--Social aspects.

Improvisation (Music).

Educational change.

Interdisciplinary approach in education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (401 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : Temple University Press, [2024]

Summary:

An adept improviser can find ways forward amid impasse, agency amid oppression, and community amid division. The editors and contributors to The Improviser's Classroom present an array of critical approaches intended to reimagine pedagogy through the prisms of activism, reciprocity, and communal care.Demonstrating how improvisation can inform scenes of teaching and learning, this volumealso outlines how improvisatory techniques offer powerful, if not vital, tools for producing connection, creativity, accompaniment, reciprocity, meaningful revelation, and lifelong curiosity. The Improviser's Classroom champions activist pedagogies and the public work essential for creating communities bound together by reciprocal care and equity. Contributors: Sibongile Bhebhe, Judit Csobod, Michael Dessen, jashen edwards, Kate Galloway, Tomie Hahn, Petro Janse van Vuuren, Lauren Michelle Levesque, George Lipsitz, Rich Marsella, Tracy McMullen, Hafez Modirzadeh, Ed Sarath, Joe Sorbara, Jesse Stewart, Ellen Waterman, Carey West, and the editors

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Seeding/Ceding Ground: An Editors' Note on The Improviser's Classroom | Daniel Fischlin and Mark Lomanno

Preface | Ed Sarath

Acknowledgments

Call

Worldmaking Pedagogies: Improvisation as Learning / Learning as Improvisation | Daniel Fischlin

Transformative Sensibilities

1. Performing Sense, an Improvisation | Tomie Hahn

2. Community Crossings: An Autoethnography from the Bandstand to the Classroom | Carey West

3. Puppets and Hallway Dancing: Improvisation as a Catalyst for Transformative Learning | Lauren Michelle Levesque

Coauthoring Collectivities: Pedagogy and Difference

4. Learning How to Arrive: The Improvisational Toolkit of Artivistas in Boyle Heights | George Lipsitz

5. Improvisation, Pedagogy, and Black Feminist Thought: Alternative Knowledge Takes Center Stage | Tracy McMullen

6. Applied Improvisation and the Political Classroom: A Strategic Narrative Embodiment Model for Addressing Systemic Injustice(s) | Sibongile Bhebhe and Petro Janse van Vuuren

7. We Are All Musicians: A Dialogue on Improvisation, Pedagogy, and Social Justice | Jesse Stewart and Ellen Waterman

Power and Fugitive Pedagogies

8 Attending to the Social Space of The Music: Self-Expression as a Site of Pedagogy | Joe Sorbara

9 On Not Getting Over It | Michael Dessen

Unlearning: Radical Practices of Engagement

10. manifest(o): for the advancement of extra-institutional improvised learning(s) | Judit Csobod

11. The Lost Art of Prank Calling: Politics and Rebellion in the Improviser's Classroom | Richard Marsella

12. Situated Listening and Soundwalking in Uneasy Places and Times | Kate Galloway

13. "This Is My Family": Sonny Stitt in Words and Music | Hafez Modirzadeh

14. Improvisational Encounters with the Sonic Lifeworld | jashen edwards

Response.

Intimate Incorporations: Teaching as Improvisation / Improvisation as Teaching | Mark Lomanno

Additional Sources on Pedagogy and Improvisation

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781439924501

1439924503