ERIC Number: EJ1089331
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2014
Pages: 17
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Black, White, and Rainbow [of Desire]: The Colour of Race-Talk of Pre-Service World Language Educators in Boalian Theatre Workshops
Wooten, Jennifer; Cahnmann-Taylor, Melisa
Pedagogies: An International Journal, v9 n3 p179-195 2014
This article examines how Boalian Theatre of the Oppressed exercises helped instructors and pre-service teachers navigate the consequences of ventriloquized, racialized discourses in a pre-service world language teacher education classroom. Applying a critical and performative approach, we analyse the mostly White student-actors' varying representations of a "White teacher's" use of the term "hoodlum" for classroom management and the resulting communication breakdown that occurred between the teacher and a "Black parent." Findings indicate that rehearsing pre-service teachers' classroom struggles helped to move the group away from monochromatic perceptions of White/Black, Teacher/Parent interactions to a polychromatic view of interlocutors' multiple histories and investments. This study has implications for revitalizing the place of world language education in K-12 education, extending the acquisition of second language verbs and nouns to incorporate connections between language, culture, history, and power.
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Theater Arts, Audience Participation, Social Justice, Critical Theory, Race, Discourse Analysis, Second Language Instruction, Verbs, Nouns, Student Teachers, Performance, Racial Bias, Context Effect, Social Environment, Perspective Taking, Elementary Secondary Education, Power Structure, Language Usage
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Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education; Elementary Secondary Education
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Language: English
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