Going Performative in Intercultural Education (eBook)

lt;p>John Crutchfield is a theatre artist and lecturer in the Department of Didactics, Institute for English Language and Literature, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.

Manfred Schewe is Head of the Department of Drama and Theatre Studies at University College Cork, Ireland. He is the founding editor of SCENARIO (http://scenario.ucc.ie), a bilingual Online Journal for Performative Teaching, Learning, Research.

John Crutchfield and Manfred Schewe: Introduction

I: First Impressions

1. Magdalena Haftner and Alexander Riedmüller: The Intercultural Surprise – Teaching Improvisational Theatre in Different Cultural Contexts

II: Focus on Schools (Immigrant/Refugee Children)

2. Katja Frimberger: The Ethics of Performative Approaches in Intercultural Education

3. Evi Kompiadou, Antonis Lenakakis and Roula Tsokalidou: Diadrasis – An Interactive Project on Language Teaching to Immigrant Families in a Greek School

4. Joëlle Aden: Developing Empathy through Theatre – A Transcultural Perspective in Second Language Education

III: Focus on Teacher Training

5. Micha Fleiner: Interculturality in Foreign Language Teacher Training – Performing Arts Projects across National, Language and Cultural Borders

6. Almut Küppers: Exploring Diversity through Drama Education – English-Turkish Perspectives on National German Stereotypes in Foreign Language Teacher Training

7. John Crutchfield and Michaela Sambanis: Staging Otherness – Three New Empirical Studies in Dramapädagogik with Relevance for Intercultural Learning in the Foreign Language Classroom

IV: Focus on Specific Performative Approaches: Process Drama and Playback Theatre

8. Julia Rothwell: Using Process Drama to Engage Beginner Learners in Intercultural Language Learning

9. Erika Piazzoli: Intercultural/Dramatic Tension and the Nature of Intercultural Engagement

V: Focus on Performance and Biography

10. Daniel Feldhendler: Enacting Life: Dialogue and Mediation in Cross Cultural Contexts

11. Jane Arnfield: Suitcase of Survival – Performance, Biography and Intercultural Education

VI: Performative Approaches to Intercultural Education – A Culture-Specific Perspective

12. Eucharia Donnery: The Intercultural Journey – Drama-Based Practitioners in JFL in North America, and JSL and EFL in Japan