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Theatre Teacher Beliefs About Quality Practice in the Secondary Theatre Classroom: An Ethnographic Study

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Pages 44-60 | Published online: 24 Apr 2014
 

Abstract

The act of teaching theatre, whether in the classroom, the studio, the shop, or on the stage, can seem fleeting. The essence of a really good theatre teacher might even be indescribable to most. As preservice theatre teacher educators at two large universities in the Western United States, this fact has nagged us. We want to be able to identify what quality practice is to the preservice teachers we teach and supervise. Furthermore, we want to be able to describe quality theatre education practice to ourselves, but like other researchers, we have found that there are few definite answers regarding what quality practice in a theatre classroom looks like. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to discover the quality practices that teachers espoused and embodied.

Translation of Abstract

El acto de enseñar teatro, ya sea en el aula, el estudio, el taller, o en el escenario, puede parecer evasivo. La esencia de un buen profesor de teatro podría parecer indescriptible para la mayoría. Como profesores de maestros de teatro en formación previa al empleo, en dos grandes universidades del Oeste de Estados Unidos, este hecho nos inquieta. Queremos ser capaces de identificar lo que significa una práctica de calidad entre los profesores en formación a los que supervisamos y enseñamos. Mucho más allá, queremos ser capaces de describir qué es una práctica de calidad en la enseñanza del teatro, para nosotros mismos; pero, al igual que otros investigadores, hemos encontrado que hay pocas respuestas definitivas sobre cómo es una práctica de calidad en un aula de teatro. Por lo tanto, el propósito de este estudio fue conocer las prácticas de calidad que los maestros adoptaron y llevaron a cabo.

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