Teaching Responsibility
LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:
LJMU Partner Taught
Learning Methods
Lecture
Module Offerings
7502ATCD-SEP-PAR
Aims
In this module students learn to use research methods to inform and justify professional decision making.
Learning Outcomes
1.
Locate and appraise key decisions/judgements/dilemmas that inform professional practice as a theatre/drama facilitator.
2.
Identify gaps in knowledge and/or information that underpin areas of contestation in the professional field.
3.
Utilise a range of sophisticated extant critical thinking tools and schema to research analyse and distil a position regarding a contested issue or knowledge gap.
Module Content
Outline Syllabus:Phase 1: Students will attend a series of lecture seminars that will introduce them to variety of critical thinking tools and schema that can be applied to issues informing and arising from drama/theatre facilitation and related work. This will include issues concerning the performing arts, politics/policy contexts and pedagogy. Keynote lectures will be given on each of these subjects.
Phase 2: Following the intensive workshop students return to the workplace and, via weekly reflective tasks with tutorial support, identify issues and/or knowledge gaps that arise in their practice, select an appropriate schema and develop short policy advice/ decision papers. At the end of this period students return to LIPA to review their practice papers and negotiate with their supervisor a subject for an extended paper (situated in their current or forthcoming practice).
Phase 3: Students return to the workplace and work on the extended paper. It is submitted along with a portfolio of three of the shorter paper created in the earlier part of the module.
Additional Information:Module Leader: Gillian Knox