Education Philosophy & Social Aspects
Hope in a Collapsing World
Youth, Theatre, and Listening as a Political Alternative
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Initial publish date
- Apr 2022
- Category
- Philosophy & Social Aspects, Curricula, General
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781487541200
- Publish Date
- Apr 2022
- List Price
- $39.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781487541224
- Publish Date
- Mar 2022
- List Price
- $39.95
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9781487541194
- Publish Date
- Apr 2022
- List Price
- $95.00
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Description
For young people, the space of the drama classroom can be a space for deep learning as they struggle across difference to create something together with common purpose. Collaborating across institutions, theatres, and community spaces, the research in Hope in a Collapsing World mobilizes theatre to build its methodology and create new data with young people as they seek the language of performance to communicate their worries, fears, and dreams to a global network of researchers and a wider public.
A collaboration between a social scientist and a playwright and using both ethnographic study and playwriting, Hope in a Collapsing World represents a groundbreaking hybrid format of research text and original script – titled Towards Youth: A Play on Radical Hope – for reading, experimentation, and performance.
About the authors
Kathleen Gallagher is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a Distinguished Professor in the department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning, cross-appointed to the Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Toronto.
Awards
- Winner, 2023 AATE Distinguished Book Award Awarded by the American Alliance for Theatre & Education