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  • Youth, Power, Performance

    Applied Theatre with Systemically Marginalized Youth

    by Diane Conrad ...
    This book draws on over twenty years scholarship from Diane Conrad's academic career in applied theatre research with systemically marginalized youth. It draws on applied theatre research conducted with youth in three specific contexts: in alternative high schools, in a youth jail and with street-involved youth.By drawing on examples from several projects, highlighting youths’ voices and youths’ ... Read more

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  • Educational Fabulations

    Teaching and Learning for a World Yet to Come

    Edited by Diane Conrad, Sean Wiebe ...
    Series series Palgrave Studies in Educational Futures
    This highly original collection presents speculative fiction as fiction-based research to re-imagine education in the future. Given the particular convergence of economic and governmental pressures in educational institutions today, schools represent imaginative sites especially well-suited to interrogation through an SF lens. The relevance for education of the exploration and interrogation of ... Read more

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  • Teachers and Teaching on Stage and on Screen

    Dramatic Depictions

    Why are educators and their profession the focus of so much film and theatre? Diane Conrad and Monica Prendergast bring together scholars and practitioners in education, examining dramatic portrayals of teachers and teaching to answer this very question. Films such as Freedom Writers, Bad Teacher and School of Rock, to name a few, intentionally or inadvertently comment on education and influence ... Read more

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  • Creating Together

    Participatory, Community-Based, and Collaborative Arts Practices and Scholarship across Canada

    Edited by Diane Conrad, Anita Sinner ...
    Creating Together explores an emerging approach to research that combines arts practices and scholarship in participatory, community-based, and collaborative contexts in Canada across multiple disciplines. Looking at a variety of art forms, from photography and mural painting to performance art and poetry, the contributors explore how the process of creating together generates and disseminates ... Read more

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  • The End of Love

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  • On the Inconvenience of Other People

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