Interactive theater and self‐efficacy

Abstract

What are the advantages and drawbacks of using inter‐active theater for faculty development on multicultural issues?

Forum Play as a method for learning ethical practice: A qualitative study among Swedish health-care staff

“…Boal's theater methods have been applied in various contexts, to facilitate individual development and social change [13,14,[33][34][35]. Using interactive theater for approaching AHC as a practical ethical problem raises questions about the processes of learning realized in FP.…”

Embodiment: A Multimodal International Teacher Education Pedagogy?

“…Research from the United States and Israel explores the use of improvisational theatre techniques to teach skills such as facilitating classroom discussion (see Griggs, 2001;Sawyer, 2004;Shem-Tov, 2011). In the United States and in Australia, techniques from Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed (1979) have been successfully applied in teacher education contexts, for example to explore issues of race and power (Placier, Burgoyne, Cockrell, Welch, & Neville, 2005), to develop students' multicultural awareness (Burgoyne et al, 2007), to help students come to terms with the experience of difference and diversity (Bhukhanwala & Allexsaht-Snider, 2013), and as a form of embodied reflection on teaching (Branscombe & Schneider, 2013;Forgasz, 2014aForgasz, , 2014b.…”

Using Theater of the Oppressed in Nursing Education: Rehearsing to be change agents.

“…It is important for the students to perform the actions challenging oppression, rather than merely watching actors, because this encourages that student to perform similar actions in real life (Boal, 2008(Boal, /1979Faigin & Stein, 2010). Albert Bandura theorized the importance of perceived self-efficacy as necessary to changing behaviors (Burgoyne, et al, 2007;Schaedler, 2010). "When people believe they have no power to produce change they will not try to make things happen" (Bandura, 1997, p. 3).…”

“…Confronting social and cultural dominance in the context of theater provides a safer space for spectactors to test out ways of overcoming real world experiences of oppression and allows for teachable moments where peers can judge whether or not the proposed actions would be viable in the real world (Burgoyne, et al, 2007). Boal (1995) created several theater techniques and experiences for the primary purpose of liberating oppressed peoples from "concrete, visible oppressions" (pg.…”