Theatre, Early/Education, Community Engagement

Studying healthy and creative ways to interact with kids and all people from an academic and nonacademic perspective

[voices-findingandlistening]

We are all artists, and theatre is a language. We have no better way to work together, to learn about each other, to heal , and to grow.

Michael Rohd Theatre for Community, Conflict, & Dialogue

[deadbeatmaker]

fucks me up how many musicals are about poverty and capitalism and human suffering and yet tickets are so expensive that they’re mostly available to rich people

[voices-findingandlistening]

Caine's Arcade 2: From a Movie to a Movement

After "Caine's Arcade" went viral, we started Imagination.org & launched a Global Cardboard Challenge to foster creativity, play, and imagination in kids eve...

Moving the world with creativity!

[voices-findingandlistening]

Bring Your Imagination to Life

What story do you want to tell? How would you build it? What would you build it with?

[voices-findingandlistening]

Caine's Arcade

I went to get my car fixed and met this 9 year old boy who built a cardboard arcade in his dad's auto shop. What happened next changed both our lives. Chip i...

Getting pumped for Global Cardboard Challenge! Thanks Caine!

[geewhizliz]

It is not our role to speak to the people about our own view of the world, nor to attempt to impose that view on them, but rather to dialogue with the new people about their views and ours. We must realize that their view of the world, reflects their situation in the world.

Paulo Freire (via geewhizliz)

[fullpraxisnow]

We need to read seriously, but above all we need to learn what it really means to read… [R]eading is not just ‘to walk on the words,’ it is not ‘flying over the words either.’ Reading is re-writing what we are reading.

Paulo Freire  | A Pedagogy for Liberation: Dialogues on Transforming Education (via fullpraxisnow)

[tenderqweer-blog]

When we are taught that we cannot know things unless we are taught by great minds, we submit to a whole suite of unfree practices that take on the form of a colonial relation.

Paulo Freire (via tenderqweer)

[fullpraxisnow]

Teachers whose dream is the transformation of society have to get control of a permanent process of forming themselves, and not wait for professional training from the establishment.

Paulo Freire | A Pedagogy for Liberation: Dialogues on Transforming Education (via fullpraxisnow)

[pensivefrangipani]

Human existence cannot be silent, nor can it be nourished by false words, but only by true words, with which men and women transform the world.

Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed (via pensivefrangipani)

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Any situation in which some individuals prevent others from engaging in the process of inquiry is one of violence. The means used are not important; to alienate human beings from their own decision-making is to change them into objects.

Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed (via winterlief)

[theyearofselfeducation]

There is no such thing as a neutral educational process. Education either functions as an instrument that is used to facilitate the integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity to it, or it becomes “the practice of freedom,” the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world. The development in an educational methodology that facilitates this process will inevitably lead to tension and conflict within our society.

Paulo Freire (Pedagogy of the Oppressed)

[sticky-horns]

Woo! Scans of an 8-page mini-zine I made for a class presentation on Paulo Freire. Everyone loved it and I cant wait to make a bunch of copies and shower them all over! More people my age need to know this man.

[communistcountryclub]

Happy Birthday, Paulo Freire! 🇧🇷📚

The revolutionary educator is best known for his book Pedagogy of the Oppressed, but he was also a fearless educator. Born in Recife, Pernambuco, in the Northeast of Brazil, Freire studied at the University of Recife and showed an interest in education immediately.

In his university years, he taught 300 adults to read and write in just 45 days. He began literacy courses as the Director of the Department Education and Social Services at his alma mater. He would eventually become a professor at the University of Recife. Freire would then spearhead literacy programs across the state which served as a model for the nation.

That all ended in 1964 when the coup d'etat and dictatorship arrested Freire. After spending about 70 days in prison Freire was exiled and would live in Chile, the United States, and Geneva while waiting to return to Brazil. He would return in the 1980s as a member of the Worker’s Party. He was appointed Minister of Education (Sao Paulo) in 1991. His legacy lives on in his books and philosophy around the world.

[practicemakespraxis]

We cannot divorce reason and feeling, idea and form

Augusto Boal (via practicemakespraxis)

[theatreoftheoppressed-blog]

Augusto Boal

Augusto Boal is the practitioner that we studied for inspiration when forming the foundation of our piece. We looked at the theatrical form that is Theatre of the Oppressed which is a technique that uses theatre to “Promote social and political change” The change that needed to occur is the stereotyping of adults with disabilities in the UK and throughout the world. Through the medium of performance we were able to show the abilities of the certitude members and help to break down the prejudices surrounding them.

Augusto Boal was heavily influenced by the educator Paulo Freire. Freire believed in facilitating rather than teaching. This means that the group working on the piece of theatre work equally creating a more harmonious environment.

[appliedtheatreworkshop434]

Mantle of The expert – “A dramatic-inquiry approach to teaching and learning”. - http://www.mantleoftheexpert.com/