Representation and Reception
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Representation and Reception

Brechtian 'Pedagogics of Theatre' and Critical Thinking

  1. 94 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Representation and Reception

Brechtian 'Pedagogics of Theatre' and Critical Thinking

About this book

Representation and Reception: Brechtian 'Pedagogics of Theatre' and Critical Thinking deploys German playwright Bertolt Brecht's theory of drama and performance, what he calls "the pedagogics of theatre", to create modes of critical thinking in the classroom. Extrapolating on Brecht's estranged forms of representation—narrative, story, montage, Verfremdüngseffeckt or alienation, tableaux, ostension (showing), gestus, masks and music—Burney constructs an original "3-R Pedagogy" or "spiral of semiosis"—"Rethinking/Replaying/Re-cognition"—that is designed to create critical thinking and "complex seeing". Her dramatic production of Brecht's Lehrstück, or learning-play, The Exception and the Rule, for a non-literate, working-class audience in Hyderabad, India, critically analyses how audiences make meaning through image, word and ideology, gesture, memory, collective experience and personal
(hi)stories.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Table of Contents
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Introduction: The Poetics and Politics of Representation and Reception
  5. Chapter One: Bertolt Brecht’s “Pedagogics of Theatre”: Image, Ideology, and Meaning
  6. Chapter Two: A Theatre with Footnotes: Diacritics and Referentiality/Witnessing and Learning
  7. Chapter Three: “The Pregnant Moment”: Ideality, Gestus, and Tableau as Learning
  8. Chapter Four: Theatre as Metaphor of the Street: Brecht in the Basthi Across the Seas
  9. Chapter Five: Rethinking/Replaying/ Re-Cognition: My 3-R Pedagogy for Critical Thinking
  10. Afterword: The Possibility of Critical Thinking: Bringing the World to the Classroom
  11. About the Author
  12. Index