Recently added articles from Transformations:
Introduction
Apr 01, 2009; ... More than previous issues of Transformations, the contributions included in Teaching Performance raise questions of genre classification, not only with regard to the choices of texts, genres, methodologies, and pedagogical approaches, but also in the very form used by the authors. Contributions ...
Teaching, Performance, and the Shifting Stage
Apr 01, 2009; ... Over the past half century performance has provided a conceptual framework for representing an increasingly wide range of human experience. Performance, in conjunction with its prodigal relation, performativity, has been employed to describe phenomena as disparate as the way in which language ...
PERFORMATIVE PEDAGOGY THROUGH VISUAL ETHNOGRAPHY: Examples from College Life
Apr 01, 2009; ... Performative pedagogy calls on teachers and students to face each other in vulnerable and tense moments: "Facing the other means ... risking face, a willingness to be open, and therefore vulnerable, before the other" (Conquergood 342). l Scholars approach performative praxis as a means of ...
THE RACE: Collaborative Art-Making Meets Democratic Nation-Making
Apr 01, 2009; ... You are in Washington DC. You are driving. You turn on your radio and hear reports about the 2008 Presidential Election, which is either days away or just past. You are in Georgetown. You park. You are walking onto the campus of Georgetown ...
TEACHING LIKE A BASS PLAYER: Performative Pedagogy and Practice
Apr 01, 2009; ... I would first like to set the groove for you. Before anything else happens, I want you to hear and pay attention to the bass line. Feel it with me for a moment. It is steady, rhythmic progression. It is simple and repetitive, from beginning to end. It is the foundation. It pushes and pulls. It ...