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Applied Theatre: Understanding Change

  • Provides an accessible understanding of the relationship between Applied Theatre and intent, success, and value
  • Offers a variety of perspectives on this relationship through chapters authored by key practitioners and researchers in the field
  • Provides key learning for academics, students and practitioners to apply to their own applied theatre work

Part of the book series: Landscapes: the Arts, Aesthetics, and Education (LAAE, volume 22)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
  2. What Is Applied Theatre Good for? Exploring the Notions of Success, Intent and Impact

    • Kelly Freebody, Michael Finneran, Michael Balfour, Michael Anderson
    Pages 1-17
  3. Theories of Change: Cultural Value and Applied Theatre

    • Michael Balfour, Kelly Freebody
    Pages 19-31
  4. Part I

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 77-79
    2. Hearing Children’s Voices: Is Anyone Listening?

      • Peter O’Connor, Briar O’Connor
      Pages 135-151
    3. Evaluation and the Theory of Change

      • Helen Cahill
      Pages 173-186
    4. Concluding Thoughts

      • Kelly Freebody, Michael Finneran, Michael Balfour, Michael Anderson
      Pages 187-189

About this book

This volume offers researchers and practitioners new perspectives on applied theatre work, exploring the relationship between applied theatre and its intent, success and value. Applied theatre is a well-established field focused on the social application of the arts in a range of contexts including schools, prisons, residential aged care and community settings. The increased uptake of applied theatre in these contexts requires increased analysis and understanding of indications of success and value. This volume provides critical commentary and questions regarding issues associated with developing, delivering and evaluating applied theatre programs. Part 1 of the volume presents a discussion of the ways the concept of change is presented to and by  funding bodies, practitioners, participants, researchers and policy makers to discover and analyse the relationships between applied theatre practice, transformative intent, and evaluation. Part 2 of the volume offers perspectives from key authors in the field which extend and contextualize the discussion by examining key themes and practice-based examples.  



Editors and Affiliations

  • The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

    Kelly Freebody, Michael Anderson

  • Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia

    Michael Balfour

  • Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland

    Michael Finneran

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Applied Theatre: Understanding Change

  • Editors: Kelly Freebody, Michael Balfour, Michael Finneran, Michael Anderson

  • Series Title: Landscapes: the Arts, Aesthetics, and Education

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78178-5

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-78177-8Published: 09 July 2018

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-08634-3Published: 22 December 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-78178-5Published: 26 June 2018

  • Series ISSN: 1573-4528

  • Series E-ISSN: 2214-0069

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VII, 189

  • Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Creativity and Arts Education, Sociology of Education, Sociology of Culture

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Softcover Book USD 159.99
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