- Title
- An action learning based reflection on participative drama as a tool for transformation of identity in the spirals programme
- Creator
- Edlmann, Tessa Margaret
- Subject
- Spirals Trust (South Africa)
- Subject
- Drama in education -- South Africa -- Grahamstown
- Subject
- Participatory theater -- South Africa -- Grahamstown
- Subject
- Active learning
- Date
- 2007
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- MA
- Identifier
- vital:2159
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1008202
- Description
- This thesis is a reflection on both the conceptual frameworks and the personal narratives that have shaped the development of the Spirals Programme. The Programme is a participatory drama and creative arts based initiative established in 2000 in Grahamstown, South Africa, to explore issues of identity in the emerging democratic context of South African society - and support both personal and contextual processes of transformation. Working within a poststructuralist and social constructionist paradigm, Spirals works with groups and communities to facilitate and enable experiential links between the drama based and performative nature of identity construction - and the possibilities for transformation and healing provided by participative drama methodologies. The structure of the thesis follows the principles of the Freirian based Action Learning praxis within which Spirals works. It begins with an account of the contextual dynamics and events that gave rise to the development of the Programme, followed by a reflection on the conceptual frameworks regarding both identity construction and participative drama methodologies that informed Spirals' development. These paradigms are then analysed in relation to the articulated experiences of three workshop participants using critical discourse analysis. The thesis concludes with an assessment of the issues emerging from this analysis - the aspects of the Programme that need to be strengthened and sustained, those that need to be changed and possible new strategies that could be developed.
- Description
- Also known as: Edlmann, Theresa
- Format
- 278 leaves, pdf
- Publisher
- Rhodes University, Faculty of Humanities, Drama
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Edlmann, Tessa Margaret
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