CODE | ACA2002 | ||||||||||||
TITLE | Arts in the Community: Part 1 Theatre and Music | ||||||||||||
UM LEVEL | 02 - Years 2, 3 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||||||||
MQF LEVEL | 5 | ||||||||||||
ECTS CREDITS | 4 | ||||||||||||
DEPARTMENT | Arts, Open Communities and Adult Education | ||||||||||||
DESCRIPTION | This study-unit provides exposure and engagement with collaborative and inclusive ways of doing art and participating in artistic projects when these are tied to adult education, training and development objectives. This specific study-unit engages students with theatre and music for adults, older adults and community contexts (whereas Year 5 of the same programme of studies features the related study-unit Arts in the Community - Part 2: Visual Arts, Dance) More specifically, the components of this study-unit are: - Theatre for Adults, which explores the role theatre processes play in community, adult-oriented theatre; - Teaching and Learning Music in Adult Education, Training and Development contexts, which tackles instructional methodologies focusing on teaching music to adult learners to create and perform music through active music making and applied musical knowledge; and - Community Music, which explores musical expressions that include (but are not limited to) world music and music skills enabling community-based dance and movement, theatre, film and the visual arts. Study-Unit Aims: This study-unit aims to provide an exploration of cross-cultural artistic collaboration and engagement with ethical practices tied to 'the cause': where, when and how it happens. It also analyses the social interaction and the praxis content-integrated rationale, i.e. 'circumstantial': needfulness, consequential or both. The Theatre for Adults component discusses processes of community theatre projects; an introduction to basic actor’s training in voice, non-verbal communication, group-based theatre skills and practical strategies which encompass games and exercises. Through the theatre lab sessions students will go through theatre processes leading to devised short collective creations contextualized in adult education, training and development teaching and learning settings. This Teaching and Learning Music in Adult Education, Training and Development contexts offers grounding in the skills and knowledge needed to function as a successful community musician/teacher in a range of contexts. This component also provides an understanding of how the teaching of general music with an interdisciplinary approach can be integrated in the teaching and learning of other subjects and skills. The Community Music component provides engagement with diverse communal musical cultures and cross-cultural relationships between community music practice and other related community activities. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Identify the elements of theatre and music; - Discuss literature and research documenting theatre- and music-facilitated teaching and learning contexts involving adult learners and trainees; - Describe cross-cultural and intergenerational relationships characterizing community, adult-oriented theatre and music practice; and - List ethical, health and safety issues characterizing theatre- and music-facilitated teaching and learning contexts involving adult learners and trainees. 2. Skills: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Prepare the voice and body for presentations/ performance; - Integrate cross-cultural and cross-art form practice in adult education and training contexts; - Analyze strategic application of theatre and music in specified or documented adult learning community contexts; - Plan a practice-based, creative, interdisciplinary theatre- or music-facilitated teaching and learning session for adults that can feature intergenerational and inter-cultural dynamics; and - Evaluate interpersonal relationships in theatre- and music-facilitated teaching and learning contexts involving adult learners and trainees. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: Main Texts: - Boal, A. (1979). Theatre of the Oppressed. Pluto Press. - Pike, P. (2021). The Adult Music Student. Making Music throughout the Lifespan. Routledge. - Veblen, K. (2007). The Many Ways of Music. International Journal of Community Music 1(1), 5-21. (Open access from: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/233716431_The_many_ways_of_community_music) Supplementary Readings: - Barker, C. (1977). Theatre Games: A New Approach to Drama Training. Methuen. - Boal, A. (1992). Games for Actors and Non-Actors. Routledge. - Burnard, P. (2012). Musical Creativities in Practice. Oxford: Oxford University Press. - Campbell, P. S. (2004). Teaching Music Globally. New York: Oxford University Press. - De Villiers, A.C. (2021). (Re)organizing the Music Curriculum as Multicultural Music Education. International Journal of Music Education 39(4): 383-93. - Johnstone, K. (1994). Impro for Storytellers. Faber and Faber. - Harrison, C. & Mullen, P. (Eds.) (2013). Reaching Out. The UK Association for Music Education - Music Mark. - Mullen P. (n.d.). We do not teach we explore: Aspects of community music delivery. https://www.academia.edu/34407737/WE_DONT_TEACH_WE_EXPLORE_ASPECTS_OF_COMMUNITY_MUSIC_DELIVERY academia.edu) - Richerme, L.K. (2021). Equity via Relations of Equality: Bridging the Classroom-society Divide. International Journal of Music Education, 39(4): 492-503. |
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STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture and Independent Study | ||||||||||||
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LECTURER/S | Maria M. Brown (Co-ord.) Isabelle Gatt Jesmond Grixti |
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