Ethnotheatre and Creative Methods for Teacher Leadership

• Main Authors: Cranston, Jerome (Author), Kusanovich, Kristin (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
• Series: Creativity, Education and the Arts
• Subjects: Education.; Theater.; School management and organization.; School administration.; Teaching.; Teaching and Teacher Education.; Creativity and Arts Education.; Learning & Instruction.; Theatre and Performance Studies.; Administration, Organization and Leadership.

This book addresses the lived challenges to teacher leadership. It illustrates an arts-based research approach that effectively highlights the broader context of relational dynamics between adults at school, using one-act plays to open up difficult conversations on complex issues. School leadership...

Table of Contents:

• Prologue: Stage Fright
• Chapter 1. Setting the Stage
• Chapter 2. The Allure
• Chapter 3. The Lament
• Chapter 4. Embodied Experience
• Chapter 5. Creative Processes
• Chapter 6. Script Reading
• Chapter 7. Creative Enactments of Teacher Leadership
• Chapter 8. From Stories to Scripts
• Chapter 9. As the Curtain Closes
• Epilogue: After the Cast Party.