Toward Revising Undergraduate Theatre Education

Zazzali, Peter; Klein, Jeanne

doi:10.1353/tt.2015.0034

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Section: An Account Of Entrepreneurial Learning In Theatre and Performancementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Politically conservative and market-driven pressures are now holding universities accountable for delivering a more cost-efficient education that provides students an adequate return on their investment. (Zazzali and Klein 2015: 261)…”

Section: Enterprise In Creative Disciplinesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Although commonly applied to the business sector of our capitalist society, we are using this term in an artistic context, consisting of innovation and initiative – two necessary skills for developing and deploying one’s craft. (Zazzali and Klein 2015: 267).The explicit aim of the enterprise module I am leading is to:enable students to develop knowledge of entrepreneurship as it applies within the cultural and creative domains, including, for example notions of intrapreneurship, and its application to possible contexts beyond. The relevant context for this module is normally outside the School and may be outside the University.…”

Section: An Account Of Entrepreneurial Learning In Theatre and Performancementioning

confidence: 99%

“…The primacy in these early days is authenticity: ‘we honor our mutual intransitive processes and continual self-interrogations of our respective work’ (Zazzali and Klein 2015: 264). To build trust and engagement it is important that the students’ own creative identities are foremost.…”

Section: An Account Of Entrepreneurial Learning In Theatre and Performancementioning

confidence: 99%

“…While this may be less the case today, it is probably safe to conclude that business schools remain places more associated with the promotion of business venturing than the development of creative practice. Zazzali and Klein (2015) underline the need for educators in creative disciplines to ‘cultivate the curious minds and personal epistemologies of students within each dynamic learning space’ (p. 264). Importantly they describe students in the context of theatre studies as ‘co-decision-makers’ in a curriculum that embraces ‘entrepreneurial and community-based learning strategies in order to disrupt individualistic silos, initiate alternative careers, and create innovative forms of theatre’ (p. 263).…”

Section: Enterprise In Creative Disciplinesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Fail fast, fail often…but don’t fail this course! Business and enterprise education through the lens of theatre and the creative arts

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Walmsley

2020

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This paper considers business and enterprise education through the lens of theatre and the creative arts, and identifies new pathways towards an interdisciplinary way of supporting the young innovators of the future, placing higher education as a central catalyst. Following a review of key criticism directed at traditional business and management approaches in the academy, the article problematizes the notion of experiential enterprise education in the curriculum and poses the question as to where and when students are afforded the opportunity to fail. Through an autoethnographic account, the key themes of authenticity, risk and failure, experiential approaches and embeddedness are presented. There is an urgent need for further and higher education institutions to develop a much more holistic and interdisciplinary approach to developing entrepreneurship in their students. These institutions are currently perpetuating pedagogical hypocrisy in that they preach productive failure while practising assessment success. An effective 21st-century approach would champion risk-taking and productive failure, place processes over outputs and acknowledge the important role of the post-course curriculum.

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Section: An Account Of Entrepreneurial Learning In Theatre and Performancementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Enterprise In Creative Disciplinesmentioning

confidence: 99%