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    <mods:title>The Essentiality of Playing Pretend: Imagination, Creativity, and Theatre-Based Teaching Artistry in the Early Childhood Virtual Classroom</mods:title>
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  <mods: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.</mods:abstract>
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    <mods:namePart>Cavicchi, Bella</mods:namePart>
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    <mods:namePart>Sobral, Patrícia</mods:namePart>
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  <mods:name type="personal">
    <mods:namePart>Landay, Eileen</mods:namePart>
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  <mods:name type="personal">
    <mods:namePart>Snyder, Laura</mods:namePart>
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      <mods:roleTerm>reader</mods:roleTerm>
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    <mods:namePart>Brown University. Independent Concentrations</mods:namePart>
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      <mods:roleTerm type="text">sponsor</mods:roleTerm>
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    <mods:copyrightDate>2021</mods:copyrightDate>
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    <mods:digitalOrigin>born digital</mods:digitalOrigin>
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  <mods:note type="thesis">Senior thesis (AB)--Brown University, 2021</mods:note>
  <mods:note displayLabel="Concentration">Literacy and the Performing Arts</mods:note>
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    <mods:topic>Theater</mods:topic>
  </mods:subject>
  <mods:subject authority="fast" authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast" valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/01144565">
    <mods:topic>Teaching</mods:topic>
  </mods:subject>
  <mods:subject authority="fast" authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast" valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/00900596">
    <mods:topic>Early childhood education</mods:topic>
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    <mods:topic>Imagination in children</mods:topic>
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    <mods:topic>Creativity</mods:topic>
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  <mods:subject authority="fast" authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast" valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/01066938">
    <mods:topic>Play</mods:topic>
  </mods:subject>
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<mods:accessCondition type="restriction on access">Collection is open for research.</mods:accessCondition>
<mods:identifier type="doi">10.26300/xtgs-ae78</mods:identifier></mods:mods>