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Critical Plays

Embodied Research for Social Change

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  • © 2014

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Authors:
  1. Anne Harris

    1. Monash University, Australia

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  2. Christine Sinclair

    1. University of Melbourne, Australia

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Part of the book series: Social Fictions Series (SFS)

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Table of contents (21 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction

    • Anne Harris, Christine Sinclair
    Pages 1-8

  3. Cast of Characters and Setting

    • Anne Harris, Christine Sinclair
    Pages 9-11

  4. Prologue

    • Anne Harris, Christine Sinclair
    Pages 13-13

  5. Scene / Class 1: Subjectivities

    • Anne Harris, Christine Sinclair
    Pages 15-27

  6. Scene / Class 2: Cognitive / Creative Tensions, Or What I Know Versus What I Feel

    • Anne Harris, Christine Sinclair
    Pages 29-49

  7. Intermezzo 1: Miscommunications

    • Anne Harris, Christine Sinclair
    Pages 51-57

  8. Scene / Class 3: Truth And Verisimilitude. 5:08pm

    • Anne Harris, Christine Sinclair
    Pages 59-69

  9. Intermezzo 2: Dusting Down The Muse

    • Anne Harris, Christine Sinclair
    Pages 71-72

  10. Scene / Class 4: Finding The Form

    • Anne Harris, Christine Sinclair
    Pages 73-85

  11. Intermezzo 3: One Way Or Another

    • Anne Harris, Christine Sinclair
    Pages 87-89

  12. Scene / Class 5: Telling Stories (Whose Stories?)

    • Anne Harris, Christine Sinclair
    Pages 91-102

  13. Scene / Class 6: Questions Of Representation

    • Anne Harris, Christine Sinclair
    Pages 103-115

  14. Intermezzo 4 – Art As Truth? Holding On To The Muse

    • Anne Harris, Christine Sinclair
    Pages 117-120

  15. Scene 7: Researcher As Artist / Artist As Researcher

    • Anne Harris, Christine Sinclair
    Pages 121-128

  16. Scene / Class 8: Dotting The I’s And Crossing The T’s – Rigour Or Rigor Mortis?

    • Anne Harris, Christine Sinclair
    Pages 129-142

  17. Scene / Class 9: Muse Or Museum? Theory On The Street

    • Anne Harris, Christine Sinclair
    Pages 143-152

  18. Intermezzo 5: Between A Rock And A Hard Place

    • Anne Harris, Christine Sinclair
    Pages 153-158

  19. Scene/ Class 10: Contested Territories. When Blurring The Boundaries Means Crossing The Line

    • Anne Harris, Christine Sinclair
    Pages 159-166

  20. Scene 11: Class Notes

    • Anne Harris, Christine Sinclair
    Pages 167-168
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About this book

Critical Plays is the systematic study of one (fictional) classroom culture populated by six students and their two professors, imaginatively conceived from interviews, experience, observation and thematic analysis, and shaped into performance text.  This play-as-research-text aims to provide an encounter both creative and scholarly for readers. The characters who populate it are drawn from the authors’ lived experiences as researchers, teachers, and performance makers.  The characters are drawn from the fields of health, performance studies, education and leadership studies to remind readers of the political, social and scholarly power of creative research approaches. The text also attests to the potential of integrating emotion and relationality in the research space. This text is a must-read for qualitative researchers and students of health sciences, communications, interdisciplinary ethnography, rhetoric, education, sociology, drama and theatre arts. Relevant to the lives of an emerging generation of researchers and students, this text highlights new methodological pathways that are open to them as they begin their own scholarly undertakings in a rapidly-evolving global research landscape. It also poses serious questions about education, identity and creativity that readers can reflect on. Written with humor and passion, students will enjoy reading excerpts aloud in class, or on their own. This play can be read or performed purely for pleasure, or used as a class text in courses that address qualitative research methods, performance studies, education, teacher training, pedagogy and curriculum, arts-informed inquiry and research ethics.  

Anne Harris, PhD is a playwright and scholar who addresses themes of diversity, creativity and gender in her work.

Chris Sinclair is Head of drama education at the University of Melbourne. She is also a freelance community artist who draws on research in her arts practice and the arts in herresearch.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Monash University, Australia

    Anne Harris

  • University of Melbourne, Australia

    Christine Sinclair

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Critical Plays

  • Book Subtitle: Embodied Research for Social Change

  • Authors: Anne Harris, Christine Sinclair

  • Series Title: Social Fictions Series

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-755-1

  • Publisher: SensePublishers Rotterdam

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: SensePublishers-Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2014

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-6209-755-1Published: 23 September 2014

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 188

  • Topics: Education, general

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