University Press of America
Pages: 294
Trim: 6 x 9
978-0-7618-5531-6 • Paperback • September 2011 • $50.99 • (£39.00)
978-0-7618-5532-3 • eBook • October 2011 • $48.00 • (£37.00)
Carrie Lobman, Ed.D. is associate professor of education at the Graduate School of Education, Rutgers University and the director of pedagogy at the East Side Institute for Group and Short Term Psychotherapy. She is the coauthor of Unscripted Learning: Using Improv Activities Across the K-8 Curriculum (Teachers College Press, 2007). Lobman was a founding member of the improv ensemble Laughing Matters and has written extensively on the relationship between performance, improvisation, play and learning. She received her M.Ed. from Hunter College, City University of New York and her Ed.D. from Teachers College, Columbia University.
Barbara O'Neill is an assistant professor of early childhood education at Brooklyn College, City University of New York. She has worked as an early childhood special education teacher and teacher educator in an array of settings. O'Neill studies storytelling, creative drama, and play with a focus on how such activities can foster inclusive learning environments and human development. She received her M.Ed. and Ed.D. from Teachers College, Columbia University.
Foreword
Introduction: Play, Performance, Learning, and Development: Exploring the Relationship
Part I: Play and Performance in Teaching and Teacher Education
Chapter 1: Playworlds - An Art of Development
Chapter 2: Complicating the Role of Play in Building Classroom Community
Chapter 3: Play Intervention and Play Development
Chapter 4: Critical Performative Pedagogy in Urban Teacher Education: Voices From the Field
Chapter 5: Bringing out the Playful Side of Mathematics: Using Methods From Improvisational Theater in Professional Development for Urban Middle School Math Teachers
Part II: Promoting Human Development Using Performance
Chapter 6: Play As A Staging Ground for Performance and Life
Chapter 7: Playing With Asperger's Syndrome: We're Not Supposed To Be Able To Do This, Are We?
Chapter 8: Social Therapy with Children with Special Needs and Their Families
Part III: New Understandings of Play and Performance
Chapter 9: Play as Deconstruction
Chapter 10: Performing Groups as Distributed Creative Systems: A Case Study