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Exploring A Raisin in the Sun as "reality check"

Cover --
Half Title --
Title Page --
Copyright Page --
Dedication --
Table of contents --
Figures --
Tables --
Contributors --
Acknowledgments --
Introduction: Teaching critical performance theory in today's educational landscape --
References --
Part I Course design --
1 Doing things with theory: Situated cognition and theatre pedagogy --
Individualist versus situative --
The puzzle of sociocultural production and reception --
Class 1: form your teams --
Class 2: establish workflow --
Class 2 objectives: --
Classes 3, 4, and 5 --
Class 6 (and 7, if needed) The journal: metacognitive reflection --
Notes on assessment --
Discussion: pedagogy that is grounded in critical theory --
References --
2 Feminist musical theatre pedagogy --
Overture: revisiting Oklahoma! --
Historical perspective, contemporary reverberations --
Musical theatre at the undergraduate level --
Entr'acte: a (re)visitation --
A feminist approach enacted --
Outmarch: beyond the classroom --
Notes --
References --
3 Theory over time: Asian American performance, critical theory, and the theatre history survey Beyond the anthology: critical theory and post-1965 Asian American theatre --
Chronology over geography: syllabi and organization --
Theory over time: concluding thoughts --
Notes --
References --
4 From systemic dramaturgy to systemic pedagogy: Rethinking theatre history and technology --
The way we do then, now --
Backward-and-forward compatibility --
Zeami the Constructivist: reorganizing our topics --
Conclusion: the principles of systemic dramaturgy --
Sample syllabus: Systemic dramaturgy: An introduction --
Course description --
Course goals --
Course schedule --
Notes --
References 5 Contemporary playwriting pedagogies: A survey of recent introductory playwriting syllabi --
Introduction --
Literature review --
Methodology --
Results --
Discussion and conclusion --
Notes --
References --
Part II Classroom identities --
6 Performing blackness, ecodramaturgy, and social justice: Toward a radical pedagogy --
Early errors --
Identity formation and radical pedagogy --
Conclusion --
References --
7 Casting Christopher: Disability pedagogy in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time --
Casting Christopher: cripping up, disability drag, and faithful representation Siobhan's pedagogical work --
Curious online: a "site at which autism is under construction" --
Concluding concerns: theatre's commitments to the "real" --
Notes --
References --
8 Greening the curriculum: Introducing ecocriticism and ecodrama to students in the classroom and rehearsal studio --
Introducing ecocriticism --
Greening the curriculum: from the rehearsal studio to the undergraduate stage --
Greening the curriculum: within undergraduate classrooms --
Notes --
References --
9 Teaching African American plays as "reality checks" --
or, why theatre still matters