Temporary Stages: Departing from Tradition in High School Theatre Education

by Jo Beth Gonzalez

Jo Beth Gonzalez calls her approach the Critically Conscious Production-Oriented Classroom (CCPOC). The CCPOC offers a context for students to build, extend, and deepen their notions of critical thinking and expands the boundaries of your teaching. Temporary Stages includes three case studies of how Gonzalez makes the CCPOC work in diverse aspects of her theatre program, With these thematic backdrops, Gonzalez gives you not only clear guidelines about how to teach students in the CCPOC way, but also how to model critical awareness by questioning traditional assumptions about casting, play selection, design, staging, and directing. She also offers insight into how reflective writing increases the potency of the learning in the CCPOC.

160 pages, Paperback

First published January 5, 2006

Reviews

[Kathleen · Rating 5 out of 5]

Amazing book! Definitely made me think about my practice as an educator.