Description
Book SynopsisDrawing from studies with pre- and in-service teachers in Quebec, Smallest Circles First looks at how teacher agency engages with the educational calls to action from Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Using drama education and theatre, Smallest Circles First explores how the classroom can be used as a liminal educational site to participate in reconciliatory praxis.
Smallest Circles First presents several arts-based educational research examples that illustrate how the arts provide a space for students, teachers, and communities to explore and learn about reconciliation praxis and responsibilities. By implementing arts-based counter-narratives set against settler Canadian history and geography, Smallest Circles First considers the implications of systemic racism, colonization, and political, social, and economic ramifications of governmental policies. Tangible examples from the book showcase how teachers and students can use the
Table of Contents
Foreword by Tom Dearhouse 1.Starting with the Smallest Circles First Teacher Agency, Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and the Arts Curriculum Language, Culture, and Religion in Quebec Education Are the Arts the Answer? Vignettes About This Book 2. Walk a Mile in Someone Else’s Shoes: Situating Theories and Methods Identity, Subjectivity, and Posthumanism Arts-Based Educational Research (ABER) Narrative Inquiry Vignettes and Constant Comparison for Data Analysis Making Sense of the Data, Saturation, and Validity 3. We Start Here: Narratives, Vignettes, and Analysis Narratives Monologue: I’m Still Canadian, Dad! Appropriation and Embodiment Centring Oneself within a Community of Practice Discussion 4. Weaving Together Understandings across Vignettes Theme 1: Risk and Learning as Rupture Theme 2: Belonging Theme 3: Counter-narratives 5. Full circle Unfolding’s Towards an Instructional Model for Belonging and Becoming by Learning through/with Drama Learning Responsibilities New Directions: Learning beyond the arts Coming full Circle Appendices Appendix 1: Sing the Brave Song: This Isn’t Over! Appendix 2: Reconciliation! Appendix 3: Monologue: I’m Still Canadian, Dad! Glossary References
