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| Episode Five: Forum Theater |
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AMANDA |
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This next episode deepens the emotional connections to the characters but also provides a more intellectualized experience. Utilizing the forum theater techniques pioneered by Brazilian artist and activist Augusto Boal, the teacher can provide situations that require the students to problem-solve while still engaging with the emotional position of the socially marginalized character.
Forum Confrontations: The class chooses one of the previous tableaux to re-create in action, one that they believe shows a MBT Shoes(http://www.mbtshoes4sales.com) clear sense of oppression against the protagonist; for example, a confrontation with parents or with taunters as explored above. The facilitator asks for a volunteer to take on the role of the protagonist. This time, the group acts out the scene in a short improvisation. After seeing the scene once, the facilitator then asks the group to replay the scene. At any time participants outside the main scene may yell "Stop!" to offer advice to the protagonist or even take over the role to try their alternate approach to the situation.
In Boal's work, the focus is on exploring potential solutions to a problem of injustice or oppression. There is no impetus to seek out the "one true answer," but instead to allow the participants to explore the conflict in a safe space, creating a sort of rehearsal for reality. This activity loosely adapts Forum Theater to a form more manageable for the classroom teacher. The goal, as Ressler states, is to "explore difficult social issues creatively and collectively". As Ressler also notes, the initial solutions that students express may be superficial. Yet, as more attempts are made, the work invariably deepens and opens to genuine critical investigation and discussion. In the university workshop, the preservice teachers worked with a scene in which the protagonist was meeting with a school counselor after an outburst in class. The preservice teachers took turns stepping into the role of the counselor who is trying to make contact with the sullen and detached protagonist. Joshua, who had stepped in as the counselor, explains:
It's easy for me sometimes to fall into my own perspective and just be fine with it, just go "Yeah this is what I see." But then, hearing the others, it opens me up to go, "Well, wait, there are things other people see that Clearance MBT Shoes(http://www.topmbtshose.com) are valid and valuable. There was that "A-ha!" of taking what was there in front of me, taking what had come before, taking what I know of this kind of session. I guess the context of it, there's not a right or wrong, but it's the surprise of the "other right."
This investigation of the "other right" opens students to the possibilities for change in their own views and reactions to LGBT youth, as well as opening a greater understanding and sympathy toward the protagonists of the literature they will be reading next. |
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