- Title
- Writing and performing change: the use of writing journals to promote reflexivity in a Drama Studies curriculum
- Creator
- Sutherland, Alexandra
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2007
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/468549
- Identifier
- vital:77089
- Identifier
- https://doi.org/10.1080/10137548.2007.9687857
- Description
- What is the role of Drama Studies within the university? What is ‘the university’ and what purpose does it serve? Curzon-Hobson (2002: 181) maintains that ‘if one is to claim anything about the essential nature of the roles or values underpinning higher education, it can only be that it has become a site of increasing flux, ambiguity and inconsistency’. The very concept of ‘university’ and ‘academic knowledge’ has radically shifted with the development of postmodern thinking. ‘The notion of authoritative knowledge has been permanently undermined, for a postmoderist perspective suggests that all knowledge claims are local, partial and contextually specific’ (Luckett 2001: 54). Globally, universities are increasingly required to justify their existence, and we are witnessing a move towards ‘performativity’ (Lemmer 1998), as ‘disciplines are called upon to demonstrate their use-value in the global market’ (Barnett 2000b: 257). The South African context is no different. If, as many scholars have argued, the function of higher education has shifted so that the valued product of a university degree is not so much the quality of learning but the qualification gained (Race 1999), what is the place of the transient abstract texts of the discipline of Drama?
- Format
- 14 pages, pdf
- Language
- English
- Relation
- South African Theatre Journal, Sutherland, A. (2007). Writing and performing change: the use of writing journals to promote reflexivity in a Drama Studies curriculum. South African Theatre Journal, 21(1), 109–122. https://doi.org/10.1080/10137548.2007.9687857, South African Theatre Journal volume 21 number 1 109 122 2007 2163-7660
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