This book explores the concept of reflection through a dramaturgical lens as practitioners in a wide range of disciplines hold up the mirror to their own practice using theatre and theatricality as a way of unpacking their individual and collective practice. Editors and authors consider the use of drama as the vehicle through which learning takes place for the leader, facilitator or manager of an experience rather than the use of drama and theatre as a tool for learning subject content.
Reflective practice is an often cited term in the professional thesaurus of educators, social work practitioners and health care workers. It is perhaps less commonly thought of as the purview of leaders of industry, marketing managers and scientists. We define reflective practice in this context as the development of capacities to reflect on actions, behaviours and attitudes that impact on your own practice, or on the way others engage in their practice, so as to be part of a process of continuous learning. It is therefore crucial for any professional to understand how and why we behave and interact with others the way we do.
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Introduction: Playing in a House of Mirrors: Applied Theatre as Reflective Practice; “You Can’t Make Me!”: Working with Scripts of Classroom Resistance in Forum Theatre; Transforming Reflection through a Forum Theatre Learning Approach in Health Education; The Use of Interactive Theatre in Digital Technology Research and Awareness Raising; Chapter Authors Holding up the Mirror to Their Experiences of Writing; Exploring The 6-Part-Story Method As Performative Reflection:Reflections on Embodied Storytelling; Exploring The 6-Part-Story-Method as Performative Reflection: ‘Why Poke the Monster in the Corner?’ Reflections on the Experience of Reflecting; Playing with Reflection in Drama Therapy Education; Chapter Authors Holding up the Mirror to Their Experiences of Writing; Playing in Entangled Spaces: Exploring Ethical Know-How through Embodied Inquiry; Performative Inquiry: Reflection as a Scholarly Pedagogical Act; Change the Game: Reflective Practice through Forum Theatre; Chapter Authors Holding up the Mirror to Their Experiences of Writing; When the Anthropologist Becomes a Character: Critical Reflections on the Perils and Possibilities of Research-Based Theatre; Action Explorations as Reflective Practice; Image Theatre as Reflective Practice in Teacher Education; Drama and Ecological Understanding: Reflections upon Ecology, Performance, Place and Indigenous Knowledge Systems; Chapter Authors Holding up the Mirror to Their Experiences of Writing; Afterword: Between You, Me and a Puppet; Biographies.