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Summary:

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? -- Publisher website.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: The origins and intent of this book
• Part I. Conceptual frameworks
• The state of state welfare and Medway STC
• Conceptual framing of opression and empowerment
• Understandings of applied theatre as a tool for liberation
• Part 2. 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
• Part 3. Conclusions and new proposals
• A summary of findings, new proposals and contemporary care contexts
• Performing research: new horizons and possibilities.

Author/Creator:

MacNeill, Claire , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Applied theatre with looked-after children: dramatising social care [by MacNeill, C.]

Subjects:

Drama — Therapeutic use — Great Britain — Case studies

Social work with children — Great Britain

Children's theater — Great Britain

Theater and society

Drama — Therapeutic use

Drama

Social work with children

Children's theater

Great Britain

Genres:

Case studies

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-284) and index.

Physical Description:

xiii, 287 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Call Numbers:

PN3157 .M33 2018

ISBNs:

1787070719
9781787070714 (print)
9781787079328 (ePub) [Invalid]
9781787079311 (ePDF) [Invalid]
9781787079335 (mobi) [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1041524693