Applied Theatre with Looked-After Children

Dramatising Social Care
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-1-78707-071-4
Verlag: Peter Lang

Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 578 g

Applied theatre is a continually growing and diversifying field. This book is the first of its kind to examine the use of applied theatre with looked-after children. It interrogates the experiences of young people in care in the UK and the potential of applied theatre as a liberation tool within these settings. Informed by twelve years of practice-based research, the book examines how a central pedagogy was initially developed with young people and front-line staff within a residential children’s home. The author then critiques the ways in which this pedagogy was adapted and expanded to work with other 'looked-after', misrepresented and marginalised young people in related settings.

The research presented here describes a unique journey through care homes, children’s prisons and inner-city estates, exploring the possibility of reclaiming childhoods through theatre practice. It asks the questions: what does it mean to be 'looked after' and 'cared for' by an institution? What are the challenges of developing liberatory practice within rigid and homogenising frameworks? And how can theatre forge radical creative spaces within a network of power and control?

Autoren/Hrsg.

MacNeill, Claire

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Altersgruppen Kinder- und Jugendsoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Schauspieltechnik, Theaterpädagogik
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theaterregie, Theaterproduktion

Inhaltsverzeichnis

CONTENTS: The Origins and Intent of This Book – Conceptual Frameworks – The State of State Welfare and Medway STC – Conceptual Framing of Oppression and Empowerment – Understandings of Applied Theatre as a Tool for Liberation – Case Studies – The Romany Gypsy Project and Main-Place Residential Children’s Home: Discovering a Praxis – The Evolution of Pedagogy and Praxis in Residential Children’s Homes in Hampshire – The Adaptation and Expansion of Applied Theatre on Inner City Estates – Clashes, Contradictions and Critical Reflections: Illuminating the Paradigmatic Differences – Conclusions and New Proposals – A Summary of Findings, New Proposals and Contemporary Care Contexts – Performing Research: New Horizons and Possibilities.

Über Autor(innen)

Claire MacNeill has been researching applied theatre with looked-after and misrepresented young people since 1999. Her PhD examined the use of applied theatre as an empowerment tool with looked-after children. She provides consultancy for theatre companies, children’s charities and social care departments and advocates for decolonising research and engagement methods with 'hard to reach' young people. She is also a sessional lecturer in applied theatre at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.