Never a dull moment : teaching, and the art of performance : feminism takes center stage
Never a Dull Moment: Teaching and the Art of Performance is really about how teachers are performers, classrooms are stages, and students the captivated audience. Dynamic, animated, and often unpredictable, she invites us to take a seat and watch her one-woman show. This is where the feminist classroom meets live guerilla theater and once the show has begun, learning becomes interactive, intentionally dramatic and fully engaging as it was always meant to be. No one is left behind, bored or disinterested. All the cast, students, teaching assistants, as well as the professor, become intellectually open and vulnerable to the world of ideas
xxi, 233 pages ; 22 cm
9780415926591, 9780415926607, 9780203903001, 0415926599, 0415926602, 0203903005
45230425
Warm-up. All the classroom's a stage
Long day's journey into the classroom
Lee Strasberg comes to class
Opening night. GI Joe in the last row: performing masculinities
Damsels in distress: performing femininities
A classroom named desire: academic bodies in motion
Stage notes. A midsemester's day dream
If it's Tuesday, it must be improv
Backers and flackers behind the scenes
Power plays in the master class