Student Agency in Devised Theatre Education: Creating Collaborative Theatre in Virtual and In-Person Classrooms (Routledge Research in Arts Education)

This monograph argues that implementing devised theatre as a learning praxis has a unique potential to cultivate student agency in the twenty-first century classroom.It offers actionable guidance for drama instructors by providing a new arts education methodology that emphasizes the role of student-led dramaturgy.Based on quantitative and qualitative analyses of survey results, group interviews, and field observations from the facilitation of two original pieces of digital devised theatre created by Pacific Islander and Asian-American public high school students on O?ahu, the author documents the crucial roles of constructive and resisting student agency in a devised theatre classroom.This book then departs from established research in suggesting that passivity serves a crucial role in allowing students to assert agency nonconfrontationally, which has considerable implications for peripatetic learners.It also investigates the role of student agency in online theatre education, which, a