The director’s ‘I’: theatre, self, and self-study
| dc.contributor.author | Meskin, Tamar | |
| dc.contributor.author | Van der Walt, Tanya | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-07-21T13:24:42Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-07-21T13:24:42Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2014 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This article interrogates the connections between the self-study research methodology and the making of a piece of theatre, and explores ways in which self-study can offer a new arts-based research paradigm for theatre-makers. There are a number of useful parallels to be explored between the self-study project and structures of drama and performance-making. While the methodology is, to a large extent, aimed at teacher educators, we argue that it is sufficiently flexible to be transferable to the context of theatre-making because of the emphasis on practice in both self-study research and theatre. Using the a/r/tographic frame, we explore ways in which the experiential dynamic of both fields offers a unique intersection point from which to generate new thinking. The dialogic necessity of self-study is paralleled by the interactive processes of performance-making – what Marowitz (1978: 49) calls the “actor-director two-step”. Hence, the article uses dialogue as a way of demonstrating our thinking-in-action, and reflects the co-created space of learning and knowledge generation. Using self-study to interrogate our own creative work opens up space for new understandings in relation to both the discourse of Drama study and the broader self-study project. | en_ZA |
| dc.description.version | Publisher's version | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.citation | Meskin, T., & Van der Walt, T. (2014). The director's' I': theatre, self, and self-study. Perspectives in Education: Self-study of educational practice: re-imagining our pedagogies, 32(2), 54-68. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0258-2236 (print) | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11660/3786 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher | Faculty of Education, University of the Free State | en_ZA |
| dc.rights.holder | Faculty of Education, University of the Free State | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | Theatre | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | Self-study | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | Dialogue | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | A/r/tography | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | Hermeneutic spiral | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | Arts-based methods | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | Praxis | en_ZA |
| dc.title | The director’s ‘I’: theatre, self, and self-study | en_ZA |
| dc.type | Article | en_ZA |