Journal article
Ways With Worlds: Bringing Improvisational Theater Into Play With Reading
Reading research quarterly, Vol.56(2), pp.237-252
04/01/2021
DOI: 10.1002/rrq.304
Abstract
The authors investigated improvisational theater and the possibilities that it presents for reconsidering reading pedagogy, with a focus on discussions of reading. The authors conducted empirical, qualitative studies of improvisational practice and instruction and analyzed improv through the construct of worlding. In this article, the authors explore different dimensions of worlding, a concept that generally describes how ensembles make present and create unique events in time. Next, the authors offer a vision of reading discussions that emerges from rethinking and refeeling such discussions through forms of worlding found in improvisation. The authors conclude by offering five improv-inspired teaching practices for discussions of reading: (1) teaching as invoking the text, (2) teaching as exchanging offers, (3) teaching as attuning, (4) teaching as following lines of flight, and (5) teaching as activating embodied energy.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Ways With Worlds: Bringing Improvisational Theater Into Play With Reading
- Creators
- Samuel Jaye Tanner - Pennsylvania State UniversityKevin M. Leander - Vanderbilt UniversityLaura Carter-Stone - Vanderbilt University
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Reading research quarterly, Vol.56(2), pp.237-252
- Publisher
- Wiley
- DOI
- 10.1002/rrq.304
- ISSN
- 0034-0553
- eISSN
- 1936-2722
- Number of pages
- 16
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 04/01/2021
- Academic Unit
- Teaching and Learning
- Record Identifier
- 9984371293002771
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