Teaching Responsibility
LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:
LJMU Partner Taught
Learning Methods
Lecture
Placement/Practice
Seminar
Tutorial
Workshop
Module Offerings
5601ATCD-SEP-PAR
Aims
This module builds on the skills and understanding of facilitating developed at Level 4.
At this level the focus broadens to include facilitation in a participatory performance context, inquiry based facilitation and the development of workshops with community groups over an extended period of time. Work on personal facilitation style continues but with a heightened degree of criticality and analysis with regard to developing dynamic relationships with participant groups.
Learning Outcomes
1.
Demonstrate an ability to facilitate aporetic activities that promote critical thinking, growth mindset and the transformation of opinion into argument.
2.
Demonstrate an ability to transform the affordance of a working space to establish conditions appropriate to the creation of flow states.
3.
Synthesise a range of strategies to devise and deliver a workshop or rehearsal that is appropriate to the participant group and meets agreed goals.
4.
Demonstrate a critical awareness of personal facilitation practice in real time, and an ability to adapt to prevailing circumstance.
5.
Reflect, analyse and evaluate their own and other’s work as a facilitator in a real world context and create personal development plans.
Module Content
Outline Syllabus:
Unit 1: Performance Based Participation
The taught aspect of this unit will consist of a mixture of lectures and workshops. Within the lecture series, emphasis will be given to the work of Paulo Freire and the use of dialogue as means of transformation. Workshops will explore the practical application of this work in a participatory performance context which may include:
Unit 2: Developing Work with Community Groups
In this unit taught sessions will concentrate on the role of the facilitator when planning and delivering a series of workshops with a performance based outcome. Key focus will be given to group and spatial dynamics and the application of affordance to promote flow.
Topics will include:
Unit 3: Primary School Residency
In this final unit students will synthesise their learning in delivering a week long drama based residency in a Primary School.
Unit 1: Performance Based Participation
The taught aspect of this unit will consist of a mixture of lectures and workshops. Within the lecture series, emphasis will be given to the work of Paulo Freire and the use of dialogue as means of transformation. Workshops will explore the practical application of this work in a participatory performance context which may include:
- Silhouette and tableaux
- Hot Seating
- Forum Theatre.
Unit 2: Developing Work with Community Groups
In this unit taught sessions will concentrate on the role of the facilitator when planning and delivering a series of workshops with a performance based outcome. Key focus will be given to group and spatial dynamics and the application of affordance to promote flow.
Topics will include:
- Creation of diagnostic exercises and other methods of preparing to work with a new group.
- Utilising an exercise based methodology to create new work.
- Identifying and responding to group dynamics
- Development of longer term workshop programmes (residencies, summer schools etc.).
Unit 3: Primary School Residency
In this final unit students will synthesise their learning in delivering a week long drama based residency in a Primary School.
Module Overview:
In this module students expand their facilitation practice to create participatory workshops with the potential to transform understanding through the use of criticality and creativity. These skills will be applied to real world projects developed in the Story Teller and Practitioner project modules at this level.
In this module students expand their facilitation practice to create participatory workshops with the potential to transform understanding through the use of criticality and creativity. These skills will be applied to real world projects developed in the Story Teller and Practitioner project modules at this level.