Dramatizing gender : exploring gender constructs through drama-based strategies

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Bateman, Tish
Coetzee, Marie-Heleen

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Routledge

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This article explores the ways in which drama-based strategies were used to stimulate critical inquiry into constructs of power, gender and sexual orientation amongst a group of Grade 10 learners. Drama, with its emphasis on the human condition; and drama-based strategies (in specific role-play) with their empathetic, metaxical and metacognitive possibilities, are appropriate means to do so. By referring to learners’ reflections on learning sessions, the article demonstrates how drama-based strategies, used as instructional tools, revealed the ways in which they understood gender constructs and how the sessions fostered critical (if not ontological) inquiry.

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Drama-based strategies, Sexual orientation, Power, Gender

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Tish Bateman & Marié-Heleen Coetzee (2018) Dramatizing gender: Exploring gender constructs through drama-based strategies, Youth Theatre Journal, 32:2, 124-137, DOI: 10.1080/08929092.2018.1529470.