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Book SynopsisA Road Map to Education: The CRE-ACT Way takes an approach to education with an arts based curriculum. This involves not only visual art and music but also dance and drama. Creative drama is used in the classroom as an experiential learning element.
Trade ReviewA Road Map to Education takes you through the CRE-ACT Way! To educate with love, enthusiasm, sincerity, and reverence is the mission and passion of Sister Dorothy Prokes, F.S.E. She brings to her writing an amazing understanding of the 'how-to' and 'why this' , making it such an amazing text to learn the magic of opening students to the process of setting the 'stage' for success and self-discovery. -- Sister Francine Cardew, F.S.E., Director of Education, Franciscan Sisters of the Eucharist
Recommended. * CHOICE, January 2010 *
Dr. Sister Dorothy Prokes' A Roadmap to Education: the CRE-ACT Way offers teachers and arts in-education practitioners a "super highway" to help prepare young people to negotiate our unstable and frustrating world. Her plan, the CRE-ACT way, employs both the process of dramatic activity and the creation of theatre production as the basics for the entire elementary-intermediate curriculum. Through her collaborative and invigorating methodology youngsters face the challenges of change and individually propose resolution for group change. -- Dr. Nancy Swortzell, Retired Professor, Educational Theatre and Director of Study Abroad, New York University, New York
Table of ContentsPart 1 Section 1: Curtain Raiser Chapter 2 Chapter 1: Struggle for Control in a Confused World Chapter 3 Chapter 2: Need for Security and Freedom Chapter 4 Chapter 3: Proposed Plan of Resolution Part 5 Section 2: The Production Chapter 6 Chapter 4: The Setting Chapter 7 Chapter 5: The Cast Chapter 8 Chapter 6: Preparation for Performance Chapter 9 Chapter 7: Rehearsal Part 10 Section 3: The Performance Chapter 11 Chapter 8: Exemplar: The Franciscan CRE-ACT School Chapter 12 Chapter 9: Performance Areas Chapter 13 Chapter 10: Curtain Call Part 14 Section 4: Implications for the Future Chapter 15 Chapter 11: The Sequel
