Changing schools through theater
To celebrate World Teachers’ Day, researcher Tiziana Tesauro discusses the ways in which school spaces, teaching and learning processes, and the roles and relationships of teachers and students can be reimagined through theater.
In the article Changing schools through theater. Non-scuola and Arrevuoto, written for the journal “Scuola Democratica,” Tiziana Tesauro and Alfonso Amendola analyze the cases of two theater companies, Teatro delle Albe and Punta Corsara, empirically demonstrating how theater performs its educational function by subverting the order of discourse, power dynamics, and the routines of school practices. In this performative process, there is no knowledge to be transmitted but rather an experience to be lived; in this way, school space can be reimagined through theatrical space.
To celebrate World Teachers’ Day, researcher Tiziana Tesauro discusses the ways in which school spaces, teaching and learning processes, and the roles and relationships of teachers and students can be reimagined through theater.
In the article Changing schools through theater. Non-scuola and Arrevuoto, written for the journal “Scuola Democratica,” Tiziana Tesauro and Alfonso Amendola analyze the cases of two theater companies, Teatro delle Albe and Punta Corsara, empirically demonstrating how theater performs its educational function by subverting the order of discourse, power dynamics, and the routines of school practices. In this performative process, there is no knowledge to be transmitted but rather an experience to be lived; in this way, school space can be reimagined through theatrical space.
