Transforming reflection through a forum theatre learning approach in health education

Collier, K

Transforming reflection through a forum theatre learning approach in health education

Collier, K

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Publisher:: Sense Publishers
Publication Type:: Chapter
Citation:: Playing in a House of Mirrors: Applied Theatre as Reflective Practice, 2015, pp. 35 - 52
Issue Date:: 2015

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dc.contributor.author	Collier, K	en_US
dc.contributor.editor	Vettraino, E	en_US
dc.contributor.editor	Linds, W	en_US
dc.date.issued	2015	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Playing in a House of Mirrors: Applied Theatre as Reflective Practice, 2015, pp. 35 - 52	en_US
dc.identifier.isbn	9789463001168	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/122600
dc.description.abstract	This chapter will illustrate how a modified form of Forum Theatre, Forum Learning, was employed as an educational strategy at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) to stimulate critical, reflective learning in students who were diabetes educators, health professionals involved in educating patients who have diabetes. Forum Theatre was developed in the late 1960’s by Augusto Boal (1979) initially to help poor and disenfranchised groups of people in Brazil realise there were practical options and strategies that could be employed to help change their situation. The theatre technique employed by Boal in Forum Theatre encouraged participants in groups to develop improvised scenes that depicted their personal experience of being oppressed. It then challenged them to replay and alter the outcome of these scenarios so the participants could explore other ways of dealing with and improving, their situation. Change is promoted through “critical consciousness, exploring and rehearsing alternatives and seeking possibilities for future action” (Strawbridge, 2000, p. 11)	en_US
dc.publisher	Sense Publishers	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Playing in a House of Mirrors: Applied Theatre as Reflective Practice	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1007/978-94-6300-118-2_3	en_US
dc.title	Transforming reflection through a forum theatre learning approach in health education	en_US
dc.type	Chapter
utslib.location	The Netherlands	en_US
utslib.for	130201 Creative Arts, Media and Communication Curriculum and Pedagogy	en_US
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pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
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Abstract:

This chapter will illustrate how a modified form of Forum Theatre, Forum Learning, was employed as an educational strategy at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) to stimulate critical, reflective learning in students who were diabetes educators, health professionals involved in educating patients who have diabetes. Forum Theatre was developed in the late 1960’s by Augusto Boal (1979) initially to help poor and disenfranchised groups of people in Brazil realise there were practical options and strategies that could be employed to help change their situation. The theatre technique employed by Boal in Forum Theatre encouraged participants in groups to develop improvised scenes that depicted their personal experience of being oppressed. It then challenged them to replay and alter the outcome of these scenarios so the participants could explore other ways of dealing with and improving, their situation. Change is promoted through “critical consciousness, exploring and rehearsing alternatives and seeking possibilities for future action” (Strawbridge, 2000, p. 11)

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