Teaching Theatre Today: Pedagogical Views of Theatre in Higher Education

ANNE L. FLIOTSOS is Assistant Professor of Theatre at Purdue University, USA GAIL S. MEDFORD is Professor of Theatre at Bowie State University, USA

• Preface; P.P.Gillespie Introduction; G.Stewart Medford  & A.L.Fliotsos Changing Views of Knowledge and the Struggle for Undergraduate Theatre Curriculum, 1900-1980; A.Berkeley On Teaching Theatre History; O.G.Brockett The Teaching of Acting in American Colleges and Universities, 1920-1960; P.P.Gillespie  & K.M.Cameron The Pedagogy of Directing, 1920-1990: Seventy Years of Teaching the Unteachable; A.L.Fliotsos Playwrighting: A Pedagogy of Transmutation; M.Wright Acting and Movement Training as a Pedagogy of the Body; N.Stucky & J.Tomell-Presto The Teaching of Introduction to Theatre in American Universities and Colleges; L.Greeley Teaching Design in a World Without Design; B.Salzer Technology and Theatre Pedagogy; M.M.O'Hara Educational Theatre in Historically Black Colleges and Universities as Critical Pedagogy Sites; G.Stewart Medford Teaching African-American Theatre History; J.L.Jones Teaching Theatre in British Higher Education Today; R.Brannen Preparing Future Teachers of Theatre in Higher Education; M.A.Pagen

"As performance studies continues to widen theatre curricula, this significant anthology offers faculty a means of integrating 'new' theories into 'old' practices...As the editors intend, I hope this long-overdue book will stimulate the necessary conversations not only about new pedagogical theories and methods, but also about reconfigurations of live theatre itself for the twenty-first century." - Jeanne Klein, Theatre Topics