Secret Lives, Affective Learning
Brittany Luby reflects on Zion Schoolhouse and teaching history through theatre.
Brittany Luby reflects on Zion Schoolhouse and teaching history through theatre.
Performance is an important theoretical concept in the history classroom. It has been deployed in various contexts, from a social historian’s concern with the ‘public transcript’ of the theatre of the dominant classes, and its counter-theatre of resistance, to cultural and gender historians’ readings of ‘performativity,’ wherein the cultural fictions of collectively performed gender produce and reinforce prevailing notions of normalcy. … Read more »