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Year:: 2021
Contributor:: Cavicchi, Bella (creator); Sobral, Patrícia (thesis advisor); Landay, Eileen (reader); Snyder, Laura (reader); Brown University. Independent Concentrations (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Theater; Teaching; Early childhood education; Imagination in children; Creativity; Play
DOI: https://doi.org/10.26300/xtgs-ae78

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Abstract:: This thesis is an exploration of teaching artistry and the role of the imagination in early childhood education as it exists online. Part response to the COVID-19 pandemic's impact on the arts and part testament to the value of theatre-based education, it highlights the voices of nine teaching artists who have experience teaching online. I use semi-structured interviews and an ethnographic process of analysis to uncover not only the connections between teaching, creativity, imagination, and theatre but also what digitally-mediated instruction uniquely reveals about their intersection. I find that online teaching reaffirms the fundamental principle of teaching artistry: that imagination is both a skill to strengthen and a means of learning, and as such, I ultimately conclude that the "virtual classroom" has only renewed the purpose of teaching artistry for young learners.
Notes:: Senior thesis (AB)--Brown University, 2021; Concentration: Literacy and the Performing Arts

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Cavicchi, Bella, "The Essentiality of Playing Pretend: Imagination, Creativity, and Theatre-Based Teaching Artistry in the Early Childhood Virtual Classroom" (2021). Independent Concentrations Theses and Dissertations. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://doi.org/10.26300/xtgs-ae78

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Independent Concentrations Theses and Dissertations

Theses and Dissertations for the Independent Concentrations department.
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The Essentiality of Playing Pretend: Imagination, Creativity, and Theatre-Based Teaching Artistry in the Early Childhood Virtual Classroom