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Brechtian 'Pedagogics of Theatre' and Critical Thinking

by Shehla Burney (Author)

©2018Textbook XXVIII, 94 Pages

The Arts

Summary

Representation and Reception: Brechtian ‘Pedagogics of Theatre’ and Critical Thinking deploys German playwright Bertolt Brecht’s theory of drama and performance, what he calls "the pedagogics of theatre", to create modes of critical thinking in the classroom.

Extrapolating on Brecht’s estranged forms of representation—narrative, story, montage, Verfremdüngseffeckt or alienation, tableaux, ostension (showing), gestus, masks and music—Burney constructs an original "3-R Pedagogy" or "spiral of semiosis"—"Rethinking/Replaying/Re-cognition"—that is designed to create critical thinking and "complex seeing".

Her dramatic production of Brecht’s Lehrstück, or learning-play, The Exception and the Rule, f